Moss and Mushrooms… The Forest Prime Eden 21 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 The sound of the city a bustling humthat has no wings no earthy smellno rustling leaves no mossed-up treesno puffed-up mushrooms to cushion thingsWhere is my bounty in this concrete…
Moss and Mushrooms… Orange Mushrooms 20 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 High in the Smoky Mountains, in a forest thicket of fir and spruce saturated with rainwater, often shrouded in fog, fallen timbers lie askew in decay, transitioning back to the…
Moss and Mushrooms… Mossy Morning 19 Sep 202010 Sep 2020 For a millennium, monks guarded the cedar temple, while thick moss sheltered its roof, its walls. I skip down its slippery steps to walk along flattened stones of a weathered…
Moss and Mushrooms… Magic Moss 19 Sep 202010 Sep 2020 Hike through the mountain forest of evergreens, amble down the winding path where rain falls often, where clouds bathe the woods in vapor. Visit the variety of lush patches of…
Moss and Mushrooms… We Need Each Other to See 18 Sep 202015 Sep 2020 - Field notes from Lost Lake, Oregon Cloudy day in the dense woods where evergreens grow ancient, and the only noise is wind. My daughter and I spread along the…
Moss and Mushrooms… Mushroom Rocket Ships 18 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 The moss is a holy blanketI am a weary traveler off the marked trailThe mushrooms are all beauty wartson the face of the forest floor(Earth always found beauty marksTo be…
Moss and Mushrooms… Morel 17 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 Mushrooms, those delicate answersto a vast puzzle buriedfrom view.Signature of the bond betweendecay and desire.Every feasible swirl and bend,all hues embraced by our imagination,sneaking up on us from behinda curtain…
Moss and Mushrooms… Entangled 17 Sep 202010 Sep 2020 The air was heavy and humid As we boarded, shaking the white, fluffy seeds, The bus driver chuckled: If it’s not diesel smoke you’re breathing in it’s the Cottonwood Trees.…
Moss and Mushrooms… Hunting for Chanterelles Alone 16 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 When I was young I’d run and hidesqueezing beneath a fallen tree in a thicketbeside my house. Face downon a bed of decaying leaves I’d lie quietlyso I could hear…
Moss and Mushrooms… growth discarded 15 Sep 202010 Sep 2020 Leucocoprinus birnbaumii I went looking for the yardstick to measure bell pepper progress and found an unknown gray growth puzzled intrigued surprised how could I have missed this life spilling…
Moss and Mushrooms… Shroomzoom Haiku 15 Sep 20207 Sep 2020 Grandmaster Flash now and Zen, spiky-shaped coral doornail dead dreamshades. -Gerard Sarnat Gerard Sarnat MD’s authored HOMELESS CHRONICLES, Disputes, 17s, Melting Ice King. Gerry’s published by Gargoyle, Columbia, Penn, Harvard,…
Moss and Mushrooms… Ode to Fungi 15 Sep 202010 Sep 2020 Concealed by depth and drought, denied the vital element bestowing breath to their fruit, they emerge once again when elephant clouds fill rivers that spill into floodplains. Bursting a cushion…
Moss and Mushrooms… Mushrooms 14 Sep 20204 Sep 2020 Leathery, pale yellow chicken-pocked mushrooms big as cupped hands firmly domed on thick Roman stalks strange invaders among the supplicant grasses. I am Alice struck dumb by these fleshy, foreign…
Moss and Mushrooms… Heavy Night 14 Sep 20201 Sep 2020 Thick clouds of fog grow to enclosesurrounding trees whose leaves sagin the stagnant air and under weightof bats slowly munching on moths.A lone floodlight tries to piercethe fog’s dark veil…
Moss and Mushrooms… Not to be Dismissed 12 Sep 202013 Sep 2020 Open faces smile Thumbelina toadstools stand concave ruffle-tops. Beatrix Potter’s imagination inspired her careful drawings Of shape and color exalted mycology fungi, mosses, spores. But a woman? No! Linnaean society…
Moss and Mushrooms… Mushrooms 11 Sep 202011 Sep 2020 Must we point out, bony fingers charging, that Until you’ve entertained us, seeing the future is the same as remembering the past? Until you’ve peered with us, How easily your…
Moss and Mushrooms… Fairy Ring 11 Sep 202031 Aug 2020 After the heavy summer rains, the magicof the ring might show up. Legend saysnever step into a fairy ring, regardless ofwho had made it, whether elves or witchesin a circle-dance…
Moss and Mushrooms… Capture the Whispers 11 Sep 202011 Sep 2020 * Italicized lines from Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses by Robin Wall Kimmerer, copyright © 2003. Reprinted with permission of Oregon State University Press. Poem by…
Moss and Mushrooms… Patio Decoration 10 Sep 202030 Aug 2020 -Photo/essay by Stuart Terman, M.D. I'm a physician, previously Assistant Clinical Professor/Ophthalmology/Case Western Reserve in my home city of Cleveland, married, and blessed with 4 grown children. I've had publications…
Moss and Mushrooms… Metamorphosis 9 Sep 20208 Sep 2020 let me be Ovid here — omnia mutantur, nihil interit everything changes,nothing perishes a woodpecker cavities a tree snag and calls it home, a nuthatch climbs in to share a…
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…
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