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)