You rest on stones where koi once swam
Quercus robur knows your name
Rain taps the gunwale soft and slow
Taxus baccata shades below
Roots drink deep where concrete cracks
Ferns unfurl in shadowed tracks
You wait for dawn to break the gray
Photosynthesis leads the way
Tokyo rowboat holding ground
Neon drips but makes no sound
Cypress knees grip mud and stone
You watch this alley as your own
Tokyo rowboat holding ground
Salix babylonica weeps nearby
Fronds catch light from signs on high
Your keel remembers river's kiss
Now pavement holds you in its bliss
Roots drink deep where concrete cracks
Ferns unfurl in shadowed tracks
You wait for dawn to break the gray
Photosynthesis leads the way
Tokyo rowboat holding ground
Neon drips but makes no sound
Cypress knees grip mud and stone
You watch this alley as your own
Tokyo rowboat holding ground
Ginkgo biloba fans the air
Living fossil standing there
You speak in chlorophyll and rain
Latin names ease all your pain
No ocean calls no tide to chase
Just dripping pipes and neon grace
But wood remembers what it knows
Cellulose and lignin grows
Tokyo rowboat holding ground
Neon drips but makes no sound
Cypress knees grip mud and stone
You watch this alley as your own
Tokyo rowboat holding ground
Morning comes on cat's paw feet
Dew collects on vinyl seat
Sequoia dreams in your tight grain
Sun will dry the midnight rain
Tokyo rowboat holding ground
Neon drips but makes no sound
Cypress knees grip mud and stone
You watch this alley as your own
Tokyo rowboat holding ground
Tokyo rowboat holding ground
Quercus stands where you are moored
Patient wood forever moored