Travel Magazines

By Alana Davis

Travel Magazines
In stalls on submarines
Taking me to places
I’ll never go
I never go
To anywhere
But back home
With you
I keep photos
Of there too
In the pockets
Of my clothes
And I think
About wearing
Different ones
In the mirror
I picture us both
Washing my hands
Wondering what the rest
Of my body looks like now
Having not been seen by you.

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Lieutenant Alana Davis is a Submarine Officer in the US Navy. She has served as a Division Officer on USS MICHIGAN (SSGN 727), a Staff Officer at NAVCENT in Bahrain, and currently as a Manpower Planner at OPNAV N1. She holds a BA from Harvard and an MBA from the University of Florida. She has published writing, both professional and creative, for Proceedings Magazine, CIMSEC, and As You Were: The Military Review.