Datura stramonium nods at dusk
Pumpkin vines crawl through gutter rust
Sodium lamps hum low and gold
Clay pots crack against the cold
Wolfsbane blooms at Halloween
Roots drink deep the sodium scene
Mandrake screams in autumn mist
Trick or treat the plants insist
Atropa belladonna wakes
Black berries swell for winter's sake
Conium maculatum stands tall
Hemlock answers autumn's call
Wolfsbane blooms at Halloween
Roots drink deep the sodium scene
Mandrake screams in autumn mist
Trick or treat the plants insist
Small feet crunch on fallen leaves
Children dressed as ghosts and thieves
Cucurbita pepo grins wide
Jack-o-lantern seeds inside
The veil is thin between the rows
Where mycelium quietly grows
I speak in Latin they reply
With spores that drift across the sky
Taxus baccata guards the gate
Yew trees watch the witches' fate
Digitalis purpurea nods
Foxglove counts the wandering odds
Wolfsbane blooms at Halloween
Roots drink deep the sodium scene
Mandrake screams in autumn mist
Trick or treat the plants insist
First light kills the sodium glow
Nightshade folds its leaves below
Samhain ends but roots remain
Till next year they wake again
Wolfsbane blooms at Halloween
Roots drink deep the sodium scene
Mandrake screams in autumn mist
Trick or treat the plants insist
Wolfsbane blooms at Halloween
Soil remembers every spell
Roots keep secrets roots know well