From the known adjective lugubrious: conveying feelings that are mournful, dismal, or gloomy, especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner, the photographer has titled this work Lugubrio. In order to write the following poem with the same title, the photographer has derived, invented, shortened and borrowed from the Latin lūgubris. (“mournful; gloomy”)

LUGUBRIO

By Sigismund Blumann

The drowned and dead, now turned to stone,

Stand watching by the shore

And you may hear them through the night,

From set of sun to morning light,

As they shall do for evermore,

Weep as they watch, and moan.

Depicting jagged rocks and crashing waves, most likely taken along the Pacific coastline, this photograph was reproduced as a large halftone accompanying a poem of the same title for the April, 1927 issue of Camera Craft magazine. (p.177)