Tarnished blade rests on cypress knee
Taxodium roots drink brackish tea
Knight exhales in Magnolia shade
Quercus virginiana guards the glade
Bayou dusk wears iron like a crown
Rusted steel sinks slowly in the ground
Cypress steel, cypress steel
Night blooms where the broadsword learns to heal
Spanish moss drapes gauntlet soft and gray
Tillandsia usneoides drinks the day
Gauntlet fingers brush Sphagnum peat
Iris virginica bows at feet
Alligator slides past armored boot
Armored scales on armored root
Firefly lamps flash Photuris code
Knight watches heavy lighten load
Bayou dusk wears iron like a crown
Rusted steel sinks slowly in the ground
Cypress steel, cypress steel
Night blooms where the broadsword learns to heal
Soil remembers every hand that held
Clay retains what steel has quelled
Patience measured in root and rot
Knight becomes what knight is not
Magnolia grandiflora drops its white
Petals cushion steel through night
Roots embrace the pitted blade
Taxodium drinks the rust cascade
Bayou dusk wears iron like a crown
Rusted steel sinks slowly in the ground
Cypress steel, cypress steel
Night blooms where the broadsword learns to heal
Cypress steel stands silent still
Roots reveal what time will kill
