From: Alice Said

“White Dunce Cap Mushroom”

(Conocybe apala)

It is not long
before true subsistence aches,
before its brief wake is cut
for yet another secluded slumber –

metabolizing back down through
the green waxy blades,
back down beneath the root-woven floor
to dream, and dream, and dream again

of what it means to briefly wallow
in such a feverish foreign sun –
to dream, and dream, and dream again
of morning’s moist, tantalizing dew.

Web: https://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0706/p18s09-hfpo.html
Credit: First appeared as “A Mushroom’s Retreat” in The Christian Science Monitor 98.154: 18.