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)