You trace the cover cracked by quercus shade
Iron oxide stains the leather blade
Quercus alba leaves press between the seams
Autumn writes in chlorophyll's regimes
Handwritten taxonomy of rust
Taxodium distichum knees break crust
You read the ferris wheel's slow botanical thrust
Roots dismantle steel with patient trust
Rootbound ledger buried in loam
Acer saccharum claims the carved wood home
You turn each page like soil turned deep
Secrets sleep where poplars wake and weep
Carousel horses wear lichen crowns
Parthenocissus climbs the painted manes
You catalog the fall of mechanical sounds
Vines splice the wires, sever steel chains
Drosera traps midway lights gone dim
Sarracenia pitchers catch fallen tickets
You note the genus where the fun began
Pitcher plants digest the plastic cricket
Rootbound ledger buried in loam
Acer saccharum claims the carved wood home
You turn each page like soil turned deep
Secrets sleep where poplars wake and weep
Dawn fractures through the canopy crown
You race the light to name what's been found
Mycelium threads bind the coaster's spine
Taxonomy blooms on borrowed time
Final entry pressed in bark and brine
Quercus rubra covers the ticket booth
You close the book on the park's last line
Leather returns to the earth's slow truth
Rootbound ledger buried in loam
Acer saccharum claims the carved wood home
You turn each page like soil turned deep
Secrets sleep where poplars wake and weep
Rootbound ledger buried in loam
Acer saccharum claims the carved wood home
You turn each page like soil turned deep
Secrets sleep where poplars wake and weep
Rootbound ledger — your hands, the loom
Rootbound ledger — autumn's bloom
Leather feeds the fungal thread
You walk away, the park reads