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)