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)