Acer saccharum shades the ticket booth
Quercus rubra speaks the iron truth
Betula papyrifera sheds paper leaf
Ink fading into brief relief
Roots follow tracks where steel once sang
Leaves turn timetables into gold
Autumn rides the last train home
Station sleeps in sugar maple hold
Fagus grandifolia covers signs
Betula papyrifera draws the lines
Ferris wheel stands skeletal and bare
Map dissolves in autumn air
Roots follow tracks where steel once sang
Leaves turn timetables into gold
Autumn rides the last train home
Station sleeps in sugar maple hold
Tilia americana shades the platform stone
Samaras spiral down where tracks were laid
Ulmus americana makes it overgrown
Dormant buds in autumn shade
Roots follow tracks where steel once sang
Leaves turn timetables into gold
Autumn rides the last train home
Station sleeps in sugar maple hold
Populus tremuloides quakes at dawn
Salix babylonica weeps on lawn
Pinus strobus needles stitch the time
Autumn wind tells botanical rhyme
No conductor calls the stops anymore
Timetables rot on the station floor
Roots drink deep where tracks were
