bright pops of color
or carefully camouflaged
fungi fantasia
Mousseron Magic
Stegosaurus
front yard dinosaur
mushroom scutes
on the old oak
Breakfast For Dinner
forest breakfast nook
pancakes sprouted
by the maple tree
Inspiration
a crimson fungi
foreshadowing
the trilliums bloom
Masquerade
small pruned branch
with fungi cap
mushroom imposter
So Many Workers Of Joy
we come upon
the elves hat rack
Santa’s workshop must be near
Lace Maker
the log
dressed up for fall
a collar of frilly fungi
Made On The Maple
each texture
a distinct form of life
together creating a new universe
And A Sesame Seed Bun
make my
veggie burger
with a fungi bun
Always Thinking Of Others
the tree’s
last gift is to home
the lichen and fungi
Replicating Reptiles
scute and scaled
no longer a log
now a crocodile
There Is
no I
in nature
everything evolves from we
Transmogrification
the fallen tree
sprouted tiny wings
feathers made of fungi
Together
every disparate part
from the moss to the snow
is needed for the whole
Trick Or Treating In The Woods
the oak tree
offered
candy corn
Emergence
the forest
ever birthing
new life
Golden Goblet
for the fairies banquet
fresh rain water served
with a leaf stem straw
This Green Ladder
inviting us
to climb
into spring
Storing Knowledge
nature places
the wisdom of the woods
upon a mushroom shelf
Cousins
like the cabbage rose
so blooms
the wood rose
Wearing Rings Like Saturn
from the forest floor
emerges
another universe
Wander
down by the vernal pool
where the big mushrooms
grow
The Woods
still at rest
lichen
the only green
Birch Bark Mushroom
decomposition
a transition of
sustenance to self
Trust
enter the mystery
of today’s
exquisite unknown
All Dressed Up
ruffled skirt
of blue shelf mushroom
tree stump’s petticoat
The Artist At Play
nature
in her paint box
the intrepid unexpected
Decay’s Bouquet
stump blooms
a wood rose
flowering of fungi
Astronomy of Mushrooms
staircase of shelves
brings Mars
into reach
White Castle
in the white castle
resides the white mite
awaiting his parasite princess