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Category: Moss and Mushrooms

Moss and Mushrooms…

The Stinkhorn

9 Sep 202031 Aug 2020
In Ryan’s world, being quiet is relative. He doesn’t talk much––in fact, when he turned three, he ceased to speak at all, which was when his autism was first detected.…
Moss and Mushrooms…

The Awakening

8 Sep 202031 Aug 2020
When you search for lifebut see not the vast network.When you seek intelligenceabove where you are standing.When no chemical heals youyet despise foraging in the wild.When you fear the largestand…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Moss in the Mountains

8 Sep 20207 Sep 2020
Photo by Joseph S. Pete Joseph S. Pete is an award-winning journalist, an Indiana University graduate and a Pushcart Prize nominee. He was poet laureate of Chicago BaconFest, a feat…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Fancy new hat

8 Sep 202030 Aug 2020
Rosé hour in the glen. A circle of anxious squishy women wait. It’s time for my cap fitting. Mother rag skin butter fresh adjusts her white cap adorned with red…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Where the Molly Moochers Grow

7 Sep 2020
Finding morels is like walking through a maze blindfolded, but it can be almost as much fun as eating them. Gnomes of the forest, morels are masters at hiding, but…
Moss and Mushrooms…

May Morel

7 Sep 202031 Aug 2020
Photograph by Kip Knott Kip Knott is a past contributor to Tiny Seed Literary Journal. His photographs have also recently appeared or are forthcoming in Burningword Literary Journal, Wild Roof…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Morel

7 Sep 202030 Aug 2020
The package arrives special delivery. He reads the return address before he opens it, vivid memories flooding up from that most distant time. His childhood neighbor now owns the woods…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Persistence

6 Sep 20207 Sep 2020
Midmelt, grey-tingedsnow has turned everything to mud, yet velvety patches of emerald persist. Having patiently waited through winter, moss is in no mood to hide. Poem by Joan Kantor Joan…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Savory Biscuits

6 Sep 202031 Aug 2020
Photograph by Rita Serra Rita Serra is an emerging poet and minted author. Her debut work, “Diary of a Blonde Vagabond,” is a poetic anthology that guides readers across four…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Sporulating

6 Sep 202030 Aug 2020
Photograph by Ricardo Jose Gonzalez-Rothi An academic physician and scientific writer, Ricardo has had his fiction, creative non-fiction and poetry featured in the U.S. and in the U.K., in Acentos…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Beauty from the Underworld & Mushroom Village

5 Sep 202031 Aug 2020
Photograph: "Mushroom Village" Beauty from the Underworld From the shadows, a world like no other,a kingdom buried in emerald green forestsoil rich and damp, hiding from the sun,lichens and fungi,…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Uncommonly Ours

5 Sep 202021 Aug 2020
Photograph: "Stump Meister" by Laurie Klein Moss lawn, Royal Savill Gardens Windsor, U.K For centuries, winter’s grey boles rise from a sea of moss—doomed ships at anchor, sails ashen as…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Mushroom Duo

4 Sep 202031 Aug 2020
Photograph by Josephine Napiore Josephine Napiore received her M.F.A. from Augsburg University. She has been published by the University of Surrey, England, and Spectrum Literary Journal; and the DaCunha Global,…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Shaggy inkcap (Lawyer’s Wig)

4 Sep 202021 Aug 2020
-Photograph by Greg Clary Greg Clary is Professor Emeritus of Rehab and Human Services at Clarion University, Clarion PA. His photographs have been published in The Sun Magazine, Looking at…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Mayberry Hill

3 Sep 202014 Aug 2020
I want to stay on these quiet pathswhere last fall’s leaves are only lightly trampledand fresh layers of white pine needlesmake slippery the humps of granite.I want to stay where…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Moss

3 Sep 202027 Aug 2020
You are holder of water, no seed to stem germinating, neither with roots nor flowers but rhizoid structures that thread over objects to fasten themselves setting up where droplets of…
Moss and Mushrooms…

The Bell Capped Buddhas

2 Sep 202030 Aug 2020
Delicate forms ring out in the mist, dawn woodland, a blush and grey pink sighing of spores released into time, the break into song, slowly unveiling, angelus in the morning…
Moss and Mushrooms…

The Tree Eaters

2 Sep 202017 Aug 2020
Grandpa drags the old desk chair across the wide-planked wood floor to the side of my bed, leaving a trail in the ashes that coat every surface of the house.…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Hill Country, Texas

2 Sep 202028 Aug 2020
-Photographs by Kelly Nesvacil Kelly is a former wildlife biologist and has always loved being in nature. She also enjoys taking pictures of what she is lucky enough to come…
Moss and Mushrooms…

Welcome to The Moss and Mushroom Journal: The “Earth Beneath Your Feet!”

1 Sep 202028 Aug 2020
Written By D. Yael Bernhard and Illustration © D. Yael Bernhard In the unseen world beneath a wheat field, the soil is teeming with life. Bacteria, protozoa, and other microorganisms…

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