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)