Docks Quotes

“from THE PAUSE BETWEEN


One day the dragonflies appear sudden as the sun.
Speed and softness, they lash sky to air in silent seams.
One's barred wings and abdomen are pressing

to the warm dock's slats. Another lights on the Chekhov book
you bought me, not realizing, like everything, it is a short
story, too.”
― Ken Craft, Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems

“The night smelled like wet moss and roses. Hidden ground lights lent the path an otherworldly glow. No wonder people found this place magical.”
― Mary Hollis Huddleston, Without a Hitch

“They tumbled out of the van, eager to explore the docks. There were brown pelicans and sea lions, anemones and barnacles clinging to the planks and pilings, and silver flashes of schooling minnows in the shallows.”
― Susan Wiggs, Sugar and Salt

“I would
load six books into my backpack: three I had read & would read again &
three I had never read before. Can we call this risk? Heading out on my
brother's orange Schwinn--my feet barely touching the pedals--to sit on
the dock going nowhere. To set sail is such a dangerous business.”
― Kathleen Graber, The River Twice: Poems