The root knows what the leaf does not and cannot know,
the texture and the chemistry of how the water flows,
through the substrate and the temperature at five feet deep,
and what the root knows is the information the leaves keep.
What the root knows is older than the tree,
what the root knows is chemistry,
what the root knows is where the water went,
what the root knows is where the mineral is spent.
The root apexes navigate around the obstacle,
they sense the impediment and turn, the receptacle,
of local information is the root tip and it speaks,
to the whole tree in the hydraulic pressure it seeks.
I try to pay attention to what my own root knows,
the information from the deep and from the way it shows,
in the texture of the soil below the visible display,
what the root knows is the truth of what I will be today.