Quercus robur drinks the gray
Roots drink deep where letters lay
Ink bleeds brown through fiber thin
Taxus baccata guards the rim
Morning folds the page again
Gangway chains hang slack and cold
Timetables damp and old
No footfall on the wooden deck
Salt crust maps the wreck to wreck
Dawn reads what the night won't check
Dawn ferry letter floats on tide
Paper boat on water wide
Seeds of speech in soggy rows
Grow where no dry garden grows
Dawn ferry letter finds its shore
Words take root and ask for more
Monstera splits its fenestrate
Light hunts through the harbor gate
Stomata open slow to catch
Each dissolved and drifting batch
Chlorophyll drinks what skies dispatch
Dawn ferry letter floats on tide
Paper boat on water wide
Seeds of speech in soggy rows
Grow where no dry garden grows
Dawn ferry letter finds its shore
Words take root and ask for more
No stamp no seal no return address
Just pulp and rain and nothing less
Current sorts what post cannot
Botany of the unsent thought
Fucus vesiculosus pops
Air bladders rise where ink blot stops
Holdfast grips the rusted pier
Reading what the waves make clear
Tide turns page and pulls it near
Sphagnum cushions every phrase
Peat archives the dampest days
Spores of meaning drift and land
On wet sand by human hand
Germination understands
Dawn ferry letter floats on tide
Paper boat on water wide
Seeds of speech in soggy rows
Grow where no dry garden grows
Dawn ferry letter finds its shore
Words take root and ask for more
Dawn ferry letter floats on tide
Paper boat on water wide
Seeds of speech in soggy rows
Grow where no dry garden grows
Dawn ferry letter finds its shore
Words take root and ask for more
Dawn ferry letter dawn ferry letter
Root and rise and rise and root
Ink becomes the soil it knew
Letter reads its way to you