Porch boards groan under Taxodium shade
Typewriter sits on cypress knees made
Ribbon spools red as Ironweed bloom
Keys strike clean in gathering gloom
Fingers find the home row rest
Roots drink deep the river's best
Letters sprout from steel and wood
Growing where the current stood
Cypress Keys click delta time
Spanish Moss hangs on every line
Paper feeds like floodplain silt
Words take root where water spilt
No delete just growth rings wide
Bayou song in typed stride
I speak Latin to the Live Oak crown
Quercus virginiana writes it down
Ink runs sap black through the ribbon vein
Tillandsia reads the paper rain
Cypress Keys click delta time
Spanish Moss hangs on every line
Paper feeds like floodplain silt
Words take root where water spilt
No delete just growth rings wide
Bayou song in typed stride
Fireflies dot the margin edge
Photuris flashes sign a pledge
Night Heron calls the stanza break
Moonlight rides the platen snake
Silence hums in photosynthesis
Chlorophyll drinks the dusk's hypothesis
No backspace for fallen leaf
Only carbon belief
Dawn breaks hot on dried pages spread
Words unfurl like fiddlehead
Roots have tapped the night away
Green manuscript greets the day
I pull the sheet from roller teeth
Offer wind the underneath
Seeds of story catch the breeze
Cypress seeds on summer breeze
Cypress Keys click delta time
Spanish Moss hangs on every line
Paper feeds like floodplain silt
Words take root where water spilt
No delete just growth rings wide
Bayou song in typed stride
Cypress Keys click delta time
Bayou song in typed stride
Tap tap root rhythm
Ink flows like xylem
