Left by the wash and the spin
Where the wet pavement begins
Oxide is eating the tin
Under a grey velvet skin
Calyx and stem in the dirt
Hiding the salt and the hurt
Watering cans in the spurt
Wearing a corrosion shirt
Sinking slow in the heavy rain
Washing away the metal stain
Roots in the oil and the drain
Finding a way to break the chain
Tarweed is clinging to stone
Growing in silence alone
Seedlings that wind through the zone
Making a garden their home
Sinking slow in the heavy rain
Washing away the metal stain
Roots in the oil and the drain
Finding a way to break the chain
Primula grows in the crack
Bringing the green color back
Iron is turning to black
Holding the line on the track
Wait for the p
H to shift
Giving the clover a lift
Sifting the silt and the drift
Watching the heavy clouds rift
Patient as peat in the ground
Waiting for life to be found
Rootlets are winding around
Hearing the water-drop sound
Sinking slow in the heavy rain
Washing away the metal stain
Roots in the oil and the drain
Finding a way to break the chain
Iron and bloom
Iron and bloom