Clipboard clicks at zero hundred hours
Salt spray coats the ferrous towers
Salicornia pushes through the cracks
Green glass beads on weathered backs
Tide retreats revealing rhizome map
Roots hold fast in sedimentary trap
Osmosis pulls the brine inside
Turgor pressure turns the tide
I am the watchman of the salt marsh fringe
Where Spartina sings a salty hymn
Limonium holds the purple line
Halophyte heart beats keeping time
Sodium lamps hum mercury white
Logbook entries blur the night
Zostera meadows sleep below
Eelgrass dreams in undertow
Moon pulls water through the perforated deck
Barnacles scrape a jagged check
Atriplex stores the crystal rain
Silver scales on succulent vein
I am the watchman of the salt marsh fringe
Where Spartina sings a salty hymn
Limonium holds the purple line
Halophyte heart beats keeping time
Wind tears flags to fractal strips
Gulls cry coordinates and dips
My boots know every splintered grain
Rooted deep in wind and rain
No climber seeks the canopy here
Survival writes the protocol clear
Halophyte logic halophyte grace
Salt in the xylem salt on the face
I am the watchman of the salt marsh fringe
Where Spartina sings a salty hymn
Limonium holds the purple line
Halophyte heart beats keeping time
Dawn fractures on the tanker hulls
Diesel coughs and seagulls call
Spartina switches photosynthetic gear
Green fire catching atmosphere
I am the watchman of the salt marsh fringe
Where Spartina sings a salty hymn
Limonium holds the purple line
Halophyte heart beats keeping time
Halophyte heart beats keeping time
Salt crust on the clipboard page
Root systems hold the landing stage
