Camera hangs from stolen strap
Bus ticket folded in my palm
Shutter clicks catch morning map
Ferry dock is quiet calm
Strap cuts deep, a photographer's cramp
Letter soaked in rain and salt
Waiting where the boats have stalled
Dawn breaks white on metal hull
No one comes to claim it all
I just watch the water fall
Film canister rattles loose
Pebbles skip on grey water skin
Develop later, make my choice
Stories that the tide brings in
Grain and dust on every print
Ink bleeds blue on pulp and bone
Address smudged to blurred out name
I am not the one who owns
This message in a paper frame
Words dissolve to foam and chrome
Letter soaked in rain and salt
Waiting where the boats have stalled
Dawn breaks white on metal hull
No one comes to claim it all
I just watch the water fall
Gulls cry sharp on thermal lift
Engine coughs to life below
Ramp drops down, a steel cliff gift
Cars roll on in morning glow
Tires hum on wet asphalt drift
Slip the note in coat pocket deep
Windshield wipers swipe the glass
Promises I did not
