Boat
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Picture yourself
in a boat
on a river...
―Beatles
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Daytimes we paddled all over the island in the canoe. It was mighty cool and shady in the deep woods, even if the sun was blazing outside. We went winding in and out amongst the trees, and sometimes the vines hung so thick we had to back away and go some other way. Well, on every old broken-down tree you could see rabbits and snakes and such things; and when the island had been overflowed a day or two they got so tame, on account of being hungry, that you could paddle right up and put your hand on them if you wanted to; but not the snakes and turtles―they would slide off in the water. The ridge our cavern was in was full of them. We could a had pets enough if we'd wanted them.
One night we catched a little section of a lumber raft―nice pine planks. It was twelve foot wide and about fifteen or sixteen foot long, and the top stood above water six or seven inches―a solid, level floor. We could see saw-logs go by in the daylight sometimes, but we let them go; we didn't show ourselves in daylight.
Another night when we was up at the head of the island, just before daylight, here comes a frame-house down, on the west side. She was a two-story, and tilted over considerable. We paddled out and got aboard―clumb in at an upstairs window. But it was too dark to see yet, so we made the canoe fast and set in her to wait for daylight.
―The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
―John A. Shedd
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I'm on a boat.
―Lonely Island
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You’re gonna need a bigger boat.
―Jaws
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So hoist up the John B's sail
See how the mainsail sets
Call for the captain ashore
Let me go home
I wanna go home
―Beach Boys
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Sail away
sail away
sail away
―Enya
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Poem: Ships that Pass in the Night
Poem: Going Home the Longest Way Around
Poem: Fishing on the Susquehanna in July
Poem: Now Ride Us in a Boat, Any Round-Bottomed
Poem: Boat Ride on Lake Shabomeka
Poem: Losing a Boat on the Brazos
Poem: Your Poem: Boat to Saltaire
Poem: Boys Building Model Boats
Poem: I’m on the boating lake with Sean
Poem: Standing Up in a Slim Boat
Poem: Vermont Gray, a Train, a Boat
Poem: Seagulls beside ferry boat
Poem: We're Building the Ship as We Sail It
Poem: Night on the Great River [three translations]
Poem: Brightly Colored Boats Upturned on the Banks of the Charles
Poem: Woman Watches Ocean on a Reef through a Glass-Bottomed Boat
Poem: There is no frigate like a book (1263)
Poem: Sometimes There Is A Day
Poem: On Thy Wondrous Works I Will Meditate (Psalm 145)
Poem: One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day
Poem: from War is Kind [“I explain the silvered passing of a ship at night”]
Poem: This Poem Should Be a Circle
Poem: Still Life with Invisible Canoe
Poem: Water Music for the Progress of Love in a Life-Raft down the Sammamish Slough
Poem: The Print the Whales Make
Poem: Sestina: The Ships Go Nowhere
Poem: Theories of Time and Space
Poem: Automatic Teller Machine
Poem: step: a catalogue of bones
Poem: Please Call Me By My True Names
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