Taraxacum pushes through cracked concrete crown
Plantago major unfurls its ribbed green gown
Stellaria media creeps where oil stains spread
Chenopodium album lifts its powdered head
I count the nights in Latin names
Pale wings measure growth in dark
Each stem a line the wind reclaims
Taxonomy etched in carbon bark
Artemisia vulgaris drinks the rain's cool gift
Convolvulus arvensis binds the iron drift
Rumex crispus curls where sawdust meets the soil
Urtica dioica guards its burning coil
I count the nights in Latin names
Pale wings measure growth in dark
Each stem a line the wind reclaims
Taxonomy etched in carbon bark
Poa annua seeds in cracks where steel once shone
Trifolium repens claims the ground it owns
My antennae taste the chemistry of rot
Lay eggs where compost warms the forgotten spot
I count the nights in Latin names
Pale wings measure growth in dark
Each stem a line the wind reclaims
Taxonomy etched in carbon bark
Workshop silence holds its breath at dawn
Tools sleep quiet on the pegged wall
I map the green in fractions not in scorn
The overgrown backyard answers every call
Morning light will pale my wings to ghosted white
But tonight I record each unfolding frond
No flower escapes my compound eye's sight
The census finishes at daybreak's bond
I count the nights in Latin names
Pale wings measure growth in dark
Each stem a line the wind reclaims
Taxonomy etched in carbon bark
Wings
