Ink bleeds into fibrous veins
Quercus robur drinks the sky
Sealed envelope grows heavy now
Sphagnum moss would understand
Fog wraps tight around the arch
Breath condenses on cold brick
Words dissolve like root exudates
Time to read what earth remembers
Canal bridge holds winter's letter
Rain rewrites what pen began
Two voices share one soaked page
Roots connect beneath the span
Taxus baccata guards the bank
Needles catch each silver drop
My fingers trace your looping script
Xylem pulls through paper pores
Fog wraps tight around the arch
Breath condenses on cold brick
Words dissolve like root exudates
Time to read what earth remembers
Canal bridge holds winter's letter
Rain rewrites what pen began
Two voices share one soaked page
Roots connect beneath the span
Mycelium threads beneath the towpath
Hyphae stitch what frost has cracked
Your mention of the lime tree's bloom
Tilia cordata — June returns
Phloem carries sugar down
Cambium writes new rings each year
Lenticels exchange the air
We breathe the same recycled breath
Canal bridge holds winter's letter
Rain rewrites what pen began
Two voices share one soaked page
Roots connect beneath the span
Envelope surrenders now
Pulp returns to water cycle
Ink disperses — carbon, nitrogen
Fertilizes next season's growth
Canal bridge holds winter's letter
Rain rewrites what pen began
Two voices share one soaked page
Roots connect beneath the span
Canal bridge holds winter's letter
Rain rewrites what pen began
Two voices share one soaked page
Roots connect beneath the span
Paper feeds the canal floor
Next spring reads in lime tree leaves
