{"id":5097,"date":"2015-06-01T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-01T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/?page_id=5097"},"modified":"2024-05-24T11:07:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-24T15:07:19","slug":"peace-at-the-pasquotank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncseagrant.ncsu.edu\/coastwatch\/peace-at-the-pasquotank\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace at the Pasquotank"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\n
Cynthia Sharpe, a former North Carolina Sea Grant communications intern, graduated with a degree in English from North Carolina State University this spring.<\/em><\/p>\n I find peace at the river I don\u2019t have to wade in it. Waves slosh against the pillars. The gulls have gone to rest. This poem was published in the Summer 2015<\/a> issue of Coastwatch.<\/em><\/p>\n
At the close of the day
Where problems still exist,
but troubles wash away.<\/p>\n
It wades in me.
Peering out over the water,
Assuredly,
I am free.<\/p>\n
I peer down and grip tight.
It rocks me. It sways me.
But it feels…
It feels right.<\/p>\n
The boating and fishing stopped.
It is me, the sky, and the water
as I stand on the edge of the dock.<\/p>\n