A Mushroom's Life

From Enviro-central: Projecting howdt into the universe

A Mushroom's Life

As a spore is reborn
Mycelium shrooming
Landing in fresh
Emasculated soil
Sets forth hyphae
Tethers to the world
Urgently seeking
Plant roots for
Symbiotic nutrition
Utility service function
Medium of exchange
Metal ions for sugars
Acting as intended
Siphon between lives

Find need to duplicate self
(Self, a human concept
Yet I as a spore
Inherit thoughts
Onomatopoeiatically
(Or something like that))

Biology to the rescue
Fruiting bodies
Break ground softly
Once weather moistens
Allows sunshine to create
Mist from dew - waters
Exchange vantage points
When suddenly a vole
Takes a bite of cap
And runs with spores
Drippings from droppings
Sometime in the future
Fertilizing the land
As a spore is reborn

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