We wore coats and caps
on the ferry deck, felt
the bone-chilling wind
troubling the dark choppy lake.
It was cold as a fish's mouth,
cold as the ship's steel plates,
cold as the black water breaking
against the boat's prow.
We shivered against each other,
and found no rest.
The Season's Last Crossing by Margaret Coombs | Poetry Reed Diffuser
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Margaret Coombs is the author of two poetry books, The Joy of Their Holiness (Kelsey Press, 2020) and Where Sweetness Falls with the Rain (Cyberwit Press, 2024). She is the poetry editor for The Solitary Plover and a co-founder and editor at the Fresh Water Press, an indie publishing company in eastern Wisconsin.
