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My hull drinks brackish Zostera tea
Fog drapes kelp on bollard, cleat, and rail
Steel ribs photosynthesis silently
Patient as Quercus in winter gale
Iron Kelp holds the switching yard
Rooted deep where no sun strikes hard
Tide pulls slow on couplin' steel
We wait, we hold, we grind, we heal
Boxcars dream of Salix bending low
Rust blooms like lichen on frozen row
Switch points shiver, dormant, cold, and deep
Waiting for the signal seed to sleep
Iron Kelp holds the switching yard
Rooted deep where no sun strikes hard
Tide pulls slow on couplin' steel
We wait, we hold, we grind, we heal
Propeller churns the sediment cloud
Nutrient plume rises, quiet, proud
My fender wears the barnacle's embrace
Symbiosis in this salted place
Iron Kelp holds the switching yard
Rooted deep where no sun strikes hard
Tide pulls slow on couplin' steel
We wait, we hold, we grind, we heal
Signal lantern blinks Phytochrome red
Wavelengths wake the steel from slumber bed
Couplers lock like xylem meeting xylem
Iron sap flows in rhythm, solemn
Fog lifts slow as morning spore release
Harbor breathes in photosynthesis peace
Tug and yard, one organism now
Bound by tide and iron bough
I push the consist through the narrows' throat
Rails drink the brine from my wake's wet note
Together rooted in this tidal zone
Two species merged in salt and stone
Iron Kelp holds the switching yard
Rooted deep where no sun strikes hard
Tide pulls slow on couplin' steel
We wait, we hold, we grind, we heal
Iron Kelp, we are the yield
Piano exhales, harbor still
Iron Kelp bends to tidal will