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)