I am a camera left on the dock
Salt air eats my leather skin
The barn owl hunts the slipping clock
His wings cut the tide's thin grin
He lands on a rusted cleat pin
Dawn exposure frame the ghost ferry
No passengers just foam and wire
The owl's eye a yellow mercury
He owns the slip the ghost the fire
Dawn exposure the morning's choir
My lens catches feathers not faces
A bus ticket stub flutters near my foot
The owl pauses turns erases
The silence with a sudden hoot
A mouse darts out from a brown root
Dawn exposure frame the ghost ferry
No passengers just foam and wire
The owl's eye a yellow mercury
He owns the slip the ghost the fire
Dawn exposure the morning's choir
The schedule board is frozen white
Neon reflectors blink then die
The owl takes flight a silent kite
Against the bruised purple sky
No ferry horn no goodbye
Dawn exposure frame the ghost ferry
No passengers just foam and wire
The owl's eye a yellow mercury
He owns the slip the ghost the fire
Dawn exposure the morning's choir
I wait for the teen who threw me down
Her bus left hours ago tail lights gone
The dock is hers the owl the town
And I just record the dawn
My battery dies but I stay on
Dawn exposure frame the ghost ferry
No passengers just foam and wire
The owl's eye a yellow mercury
He owns the slip the ghost the fire
Dawn exposure the morning's choir
We both stay to watch the light retire
Shutter clicks the day begins now
Click the dock is mine I vow
