Witch of the Watershed: A Poem

The green world is at hand

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Witch of the Watershed

by Cosmic Poet Simon Pole

When long the candlestick has sputtered out,
And rhythmic drips water from muffled spouts,
Then will I steal out in wraps mother drew,
To gather from the night-crop, matters true.

A leaf, a root, a branch in fatal bloom,
Such the dusk exudes, a tincture of doom,
I take, a…