Compass needle drinks the diner glow
Quercus roots know which way winds blow
Coffee cold in chipped ceramic crown
Drosera traps the moths that drown
Three AM and miles still left to go
Phototropism bends the shadowed row
Magnetic North won't lie to me
Taxus baccata guards the key
Battered brass and coffee steam
Mycorrhizal threads redeem
Magnetic North, you set me free
Germination waits for light to see
Sign flickers through the frost on glass
Sarracenia digests the hours that pass
Fingerprints on greasy laminate
Rhizomes map the dark estate
Engine cooling in the gravel lot
Mycelium ties the forgotten knot
Waitress pours in silence deep
Epiphytes drink while world asleep
Coordinates blur like tired eyes
Arabidopsis reads the light it spies
Compass rose spins lazy, slow
Geotropism tells the roots to grow
Magnetic North won't lie to me
Taxus baccata guards the key
Battered brass and coffee steam
Mycorrhizal threads redeem
Magnetic North, you set me free
Germination waits for light to see
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