mugwort             
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 short  plant  that yearns for  my liver. 
                                          
 a  promise  and  a  tease,  spread  well 
  throughout waking life, along ditches   
 and  ethereal  plains (my  eyes  hit the 
 treeline behind the  house. whats beyond 
      them? abandoned quarry, slowly      
 reclaimed. and  there at the  edge of my 
         daydream, grows mugwort).        
                                          
       gray-green suit with frills.       
 inverted tripod. gray coins in the wind. 
                                          
  there are whispers about... medicinal   
 qualities.   i   forget   now   if  it's 
 comparable to dreamroot  or to cannabis, 
 but    it's    one     of    the    two. 
                                          
 there's a  deafening  slience  from  the 
   scientific community on its toxicity   
       (no research, if you believe)