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You count the coins with salt-stained thumbs
Salicornia roots grip concrete seams
The ferry sits empty, hull listing low
Spartina blades cut wind through the gloom
Tide charts flutter in the cold draft
Salt crystals bloom on the graph
You wait for wheels that never come
Dawn breaks quiet, no engine hum
You shelter where the bridge meets brine
Fucus spirals on the iron spine
No passengers, no fare to take
Just kelp and rust for dawn's first sake
You log the hour in a damp ledger
Barnacle colonies map the pressure
The ramp stays down, chains slack in rain
No hull cuts through the glassy plane
Tide charts flutter in the cold draft
Salt crystals bloom on the graph
You wait for wheels that never come
Dawn breaks quiet, no engine hum
You shelter where the bridge meets brine
Fucus spirals on the iron spine
No passengers, no fare to take
Just kelp and rust for dawn's first sake
You press a palm to cold rivet steel
Feel vibrations that the depths reveal
A herring gull cries, drops a crab shell
You catalog damage, note and tell
Roots hold fast when currents pull
Patience measured in tidal rule
You guard the gate where waters rise
Silent witness to empty skies
You shelter where the bridge meets brine
Fucus spirals on the iron spine
No passengers, no fare to take
Just kelp and rust for dawn's first sake
Light spreads thin across the grey deck
You wipe the grime from the payment spec
No coins today, just salt and time
The ferry sleeps in its barnacle rhyme
You shelter where the bridge meets brine
Fucus spirals on the iron spine
No passengers, no fare to take
Just kelp and rust for dawn's first sake
You shelter where the bridge meets brine
Fucus spirals on the iron spine
Salt crust thick on brass and steel
Dawn breaks on the toll booth glass
