Your gloves hold rod like Taproot grips
The Taxodium knee in silt
Arc sings where Spartina slips
Steel blooms where cypress roots tilt
Iron root drinks the welder's spark
Quercus porch beams catch the dark
You fuse the joint with patient art
Soil remembers every part
MIG wire feeds the hungry gap
Like root through anaerobic silt
Your hand bridges with steady tap
Where cypress knees hold no guilt
Iron root drinks the welder's spark
Quercus porch beams catch the dark
You fuse the joint with patient art
Soil remembers every part
Porch light swings on Quercus limb
Denim shoulders catch the glow
Weld holds fast like root hymn
Against the tide's slow ebb and flow
Iron root drinks the welder's spark
Quercus porch beams catch the dark
You fuse the joint with patient art
Soil remembers every part
Spartina sways in brackish hush
Your bead progresses clean and flush
No flux remains on cooling steel
Just root and iron forged to heal
Night blooms on Nymphaea pad
Your final pass completes the seam
Bayou drinks the heat you had
Cypress shadows claim the dream
Iron root drinks the welder's spark
Quercus porch beams catch the dark
You fuse the joint with patient art
Soil remembers every part
Iron root holds the welder's spark
Soil remembers every part