Dock Keepers – Daniel Aôndona

Dock Keepers is a beautiful body of poetry that explores the realities of migration, the questions of displacement, and the human urge to seek safety in places beyond home, even when that safety is uncertain or insufficient. A reader may initially wonder what the title Dock Keepers refers to or what the collection seeks to examine. Yet, as the poems unfold, the complexity of the title gradually reveals itself. Through its vivid and thoughtful pieces, the chapbook invites readers to consider who, or what, the “Dock Keepers” are, and what it means to remain caught between departure and arrival, between the familiarity of home and the uncertainty of elsewhere.