Friday, November 9, 2018

The Mushrooms Come by Joyce Sidman & Rick Allen


The Mushrooms Come

From moss and loam   
the mushrooms come.  

From bark on trees,     
from crumbling logs,  
From musty leaves     
 The mushrooms come.

    From vast pale networks
underground               
the shoulder up           
without a sound;          
  They spread their damp 
umbrella tops               
and loose their spores  
with silent pops.           
        Unbuttoning the forest floor,
the mushrooms come,  
the mushrooms come.  

Like noses pink          
in the midnight air,     
like giant's ears,          
like elfin hair,             
like ancient cities        
built on cliffs,              
the mushrooms come, 
the mushrooms come. 


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