Mist clings low on concrete spines
Geiger clicks in rhythm lines
Calico coat reads isotopes
Paw prints mark the strontium sites
Urtica dioica guards her sleep
Nettle shields the roots run deep
Half-life heart beats wild and free
Bridge shade holds radioactivity
Calico queen of cesium trees
Purring loud on dying breeze
Half-life heart beats wild and free
Purring loud on dying breeze
Ferns unfurl in toxic rain
Latin names numb Geiger pain
Betula pendula weeps above
Silver birch sings atomic love
Roots drink deep what clouds omit
Soil remembers every bit
Half-life heart beats wild and free
Bridge shade holds radioactivity
Calico queen of cesium trees
Purring loud on dying breeze
Half-life heart beats wild and free
Purring loud on dying breeze
Dosimeter clicks lullaby
Measures out the shortened sky
Pinus sylvestris drops its cone
Seeds take root in dust unknown
Mycorrhiza maps the dark
Fungal threads leave their mark
Half-life heart beats wild and free
Bridge shade holds radioactivity
Calico queen of cesium trees
Purring loud on dying breeze
Half-life heart beats wild and free
Purring loud on dying breeze
Roentgen counts climb wall by wall
But she sleeps through isotopes' call
Rhizome filters poison through
Life persists in nuclear blue
Photosynthesis rewrites the rule
Green survives the reactor's fuel
Dawn breaks on the cooling tower
Calico wakes to measured hour
Taraxacum pushes through crack
Dandelion clocks tick near black
She stretches where the dosimeters sang
Life reclaims what half-life hangs
Half-life heart beats wild and free
Bridge shade holds radioactivity
Calico queen of cesium trees
Purring loud on dying breeze
Half-life heart beats wild and free
Purring loud on dying breeze
Half-life heart beats wild and free
Purring loud on dying breeze
Geiger fades to background noise
Calico walks where green employs