Sea Thrift

Like a book report
On a book you have

Never read, is life,
Like a dream in which

You arrive naked
To your botany

Lecture, when you are
Not a botanist.

Accidentally,
You look up sea thrift,

Etymology
Confusing you on

The taxonomy,
And you explain

Thrift from thrive, which is
The intransitive

Form to clutch something,
Hence to clutch yourself

Would be to thrive
Thence to be thrifty,

But now what happened
To the plant, sea thrift?

These confusions will
Become more common

As all the small clues
Your memory used

Slip into the dark
Waves beyond sea drifts.