Spanish moss drapes Taxodium arms wide
Typewriter clicks rhythm of the tide
Dragonflies skim Nuphar pads so green
Letters form where water meets the scene
Fireflies code in humid evening air
Paper holds the weight of swamp night glare
Roots anchor deep in peat and clay below
Keys tap steady where the cattails grow
Ribbon ink bleeds sepia on the page
Words take root like Sagittaria stage
Mosquitoes hum counter-melody line
Sentences bloom on this porch of pine
Cypress click at dusk on wooden boards
Typewriter sings where black water records
Each keystroke a root in fertile loam
Bayou chorus calls this porch its home
Cypress click at dusk on wooden boards
Typewriter sings where black water records
Iris versicolor nods at margin notes
Capital letters float like river boats
Backspace erases nothing in this place
Time moves slow as sediment and grace
Frog chorus backs the space bar pause
Night writes itself without a cause
Cypress click at dusk on wooden boards
Typewriter sings where black water records
Each keystroke a root in fertile loam
Bayou chorus calls this porch its home
Cypress click at dusk on wooden boards
Typewriter sings where black water records
No wi-fi signal reaches cypress knee
Just cellulose and lignin memory
The QWERTY layout maps the watershed
Where thoughts flow down like tannin dark and red
Fingers find the home row by feel alone
This porch the only kingdom that I own
Carriage returns like tide on sandy bank
Margin wide enough for thoughts to rank
Shift key lifts capital from lowercase deep
Roots and words both climb while others sleep
Period marks where one breath finds its end
New line begins where water bends
Final page feeds out to night air cool
Ink dries slow by nature's patient rule
Taxodium stands sentinel over prose
Bayou keeps what every writer knows
Typewriter rests on cypress porch rail
Dawn will find another ready tale
Cypress click at dusk on wooden boards
Typewriter sings where black water records
Each keystroke a root in fertile loam
Bayou chorus calls this porch its home
Cypress click at dusk on wooden boards
Typewriter sings where black water records
Cypress click at dawn on wooden boards
Typewriter waits where black water records