Friday, May 9

Fungi Fantastiqe Pt. 2

FUNGI FANTASTIQUE PT. 2
 
VIOLET CORAL
beneath mercurial
sapphire waves
of sky
on reefs of stony sand
verdant banks
up high
dancing so delicate
brittle arms
invite
fauna move through branches
otherworld
sunlight
salmon-colors shifting
canopy
so green
violet coral beguiles
deepest sea
serene

 VEILED LADY
The lady crosses forest floor;
Her presence dapples leafy shores
With form demure and never more. 
 
The lady holds herself within,
And many days her shyness wins;
She’s anxious of what might begin. 
 
Yet when appears the true footfall
The lady can’t her fate forestall;
She flutters out her veil, her shawl. 
 
Her foamy tatting, all around,
The lady finds her proper ground.
She fans herself for comfort found.
 
CORDYCEPS
No harbingers cry out its name;
This seed tucks deep inside.
Grows quickly, never shows its game
Until the moment’s ripe.
 
And then it chews you from within;
It gnaws convictions, bites your bones,
Replaces tendon, juice, and then
Explodes through skin—you aren’t your own. 
 
Such artistry in every spear;
With love and skill it carves your form.
Caresses lace the pain, my dear;
It pines to keep you ever warm.
 
ROSY VEINCAP
Horrors of the borderlands,
Hands of murderous redcaps pace,
Chase travelers, wanderers, men—
Then spikes and poles,
Roll the heads of every one,
Fun for the redcap, rosy
Posey, in the blood, the fools’
Pools, spreading about the veins.
Pains we take, we nasty things,
Brings us life, the death of more.

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