the 5:45 ferry

a poem.

White steel stark

against cool melting day–

all orange, all blue,

green wrapped in their embrace–

the dawning of the dusk

settles.

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Amidst white steel stark

and ill-luminated

by sickly pale bulbs,

the darkness duels for dominance–

unrolling its inky rug

for a seaward partner

in a tango of white steel, stark,

and the deep

ocean dark.