Wrench turns on the manifold
Footfalls count on cracked asphalt
Quercus shadows stretch and fold
Nitrous breathes in cooling vault
Pistons pulse like phloem flow
Roots hold torque in silent grow
Mechanic counts the seconds slow
Timing the bloom let engine go
Silene catches dust in hair
Carburetor coughs in repair
Acer seeds spin in the glare
Drive-in speaker breathes despair
Pistons pulse like phloem flow
Roots hold torque in silent grow
Mechanic counts the seconds slow
Timing the bloom let engine go
Wrench sets like a taproot deep
Footsteps pause where shadows sleep
Nitrous waits in copper keep
Drive-in heart beats slow and steep
Pistons pulse like phloem flow
Roots hold torque in silent grow
Mechanic counts the seconds slow
Timing the bloom let engine go
No fuel injection just rain and time
No turbo boost just root and rhyme
The mechanic wipes grease from his palm
The botanist reads in dirt's calm
Engine turns on first attempt
Sap rises in stem's ascent
Footsteps fade on continent
Timing the bloom time well spent
Pistons pulse like phloem flow
Roots hold torque in silent grow
Mechanic counts the seconds slow
Timing the bloom let engine go
Timing the bloom let engine go
Bloom arrives on schedule's design