You tend the flats where seedlings wake
Spanish moss hangs low and deep
Taxodium rises from the brake
Bayou waters softly creep
Cypress porch light cuts the gloam
Iris blooms where shadows roam
You speak in Latin steady calm
Roots remember every home
Sarracenia traps the dying fly
Pitcher plants in clay pots stand
Fireflies paint the twilight sky
Lightning bugs trace lines on land
Magnolia drops its waxy leaf
Spanish dagger guards the stair
You count the nodes in quiet grief
Night blooms perfume humid air
Cypress porch light cuts the gloam
Iris blooms where shadows roam
You speak in Latin steady calm
Roots remember every home
Mosquitoes hum in C major key
Frogs chorus from the black water line
You propagate what eyes can't see
Patience rooted deeper than time
Dawn will break the cypress canopy
Dew collects on each stomatal pore
You'll sow again so tenderly
Greenhouse waits behind the door
Cypress porch light cuts the gloam
Iris blooms where shadows roam
You speak in Latin steady calm
Roots remember every home
Cypress porch light cuts the gloam
Latin names in dusk perfume
Roots remember every home