Cane, love grass, Indigo grass, Kentucky blue, Bermuda, grasses tell a story of abscense and presence, plantation, industry, monoculture, and so many migrations carried by float and force across the waters. What plants get caught up in stories of human violence? Exploring the connections between colonialism, plant migration, and American economic history, native grasses and their industrialized counterparts; which in the case of Saccharum Officinarum (sugar), became a main grass of plantation economy and empire. Frequently drought resistant, integral to pollination and soil restoration, tell a necessary one possible story about our future and ecological transformation away from industrial lawn grasses and monoculture. But they also tell another story we live between the haunted waterlines of the Atlantic world, were the currents beneath, a place where the ongoing legacies of colonial land management systems are still, nonetheless apart of our shared landscapes.