PHOTOGRAPHER'S DIARY:
The underdocks,
boater's crawl space,
resting place of algae covered lures,
snagged beyond reach.
The underdocks,
sea-green perch
where gulls stalk the glossy rocks
and grumble and caw.
The underdocks,
where ropes grouse and whine
droop and coil
round creosote and slime.
The underdocks
crustacean garden of snails & starfish,
wood lice & barnacles,
shipworms & gribbles.
The underdocks,
mirror world of
of raftered halls where dead men call,
and ladders plunge to the abyss.
The underdocks,
Stygian green and glossy black
where waters slide
and slip and glide and leap and fall away.
© Emery Roth II, 2008
[150mm, f22, 1/30th sec, 400]
Underdocks, 2007
