Quercus hull on cement floor
Saxophone blows through the door
Taxodium drinks spilled wine
Roots seek cracks in the line
Oak hull blues in basement deep
Where the jazz roots twist and creep
Pedal steel sings slow and sweet
Rowboat finds its rhythm seat
Cypress knees grip rusted chair
Trumpet rings through humid air
Salix weeps on standing bass
Time dissolves in this dark place
Fraxinus floats on cigar smoke
Piano keys like roots invoked
Ulmus drinks the whiskey tide
Drifting where the rails once tied
Oak hull blues in basement deep
Where the jazz roots twist and creep
Pedal steel sings slow and sweet
Rowboat finds its rhythm seat
No compass here no charted map
Just photosynthesis in the trap
Chlorophyll drinks neon blue
This vessel knows just what to do
Populus bends to upright thrum
Seeds scatter where the soloes come
Betula peels its paper skin
New growth starts where walls give in
Oak hull blues in basement deep
Where the jazz roots twist and creep
Pedal steel sings slow and sweet
Rowboat finds its rhythm seat
Freedom floats on buried stream
Roots remember what they dream
Quercus rests on Chicago clay
Drifting toward the light of day
