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.