You sit on cypress boards where Spanish moss descends
Taxodium distichum roots hold delta sediments
The pocket watch breathes brass beneath your calloused thumb
Dusk paints the water gold where heron wings become
Seconds pool like blackwater slow and deep and wide
Each tick a seed planted in the turning tide
You speak in binomial to leaves that understand
Time grows in rings here measured by your hand
Nymphaea opens white when Venus claims the sky
Sarracenia waits patient for a dragonfly
The chorus frogs intone their latin hymns at night
You count the pulses matching heartbeat to the light
Iris virginica flags the muddy bank
Rhizomes connect the dark where decomposition sank
The watch remembers winding from a century past
Its gears turn slow as silt built genuine to last
Seconds pool like blackwater slow and deep and wide
Each tick a seed planted in the turning tide
You speak in binomial to leaves that understand
Time grows in rings here measured by your hand
No clockface numbers only growth and dormancy
Cambium records seasons in its geometry
You press the cold case to your weathered ear
Photosynthesis humming crystal clear
Magnolia grandiflora drops its waxy cone
Seeds float downstream to find a home of their own
The bayou exhales mist as temperature descends
You wind the crown once more the cycle never ends
Seconds pool like blackwater slow and deep and wide
Each tick a seed planted in the turning tide
You speak in binomial to leaves that understand
Time grows in rings here measured by your hand
Roots hold the history that branches planned
The antique watch keeps breathing deep and slow
You stay rooted listening to the flow
