Free Verse · Pet Loss
The Spot by the Door
There's a worn place on the floorboards
where you waited every day,
sure — completely, dog-heartedly sure —
that I'd come back.
Now I'm the one at the door, old friend,
learning your hardest trick:
the waiting,
without knowing how long.
But you taught me how it's done —
all faith, no clock.
Good dog. Good dog.
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“The Spot by the Door” by The QuillOak Editors — quilloak.com/poems/the-spot-by-the-door
Quick facts
- Poem
- The Spot by the Door
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 11 lines
- Form
- Free Verse, Elegy
- Themes
- Pet Loss, Grief
Text, source & rights
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Original QuillOak text. Personal sharing is permitted; other reuse requires permission.
- Author record
- The QuillOak Editorstoday
- Source record
- QuillOak originalThe Spot by the Door, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
- Display decision
- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
- Publication record
- Not recorded in the imported source
- Text fingerprint
- SHA-256 2a63c0427065b9ef…
- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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