Woo hoo! I am being honoured with a Pandora Literary Award in August; there was a write-up in Alive On The Drive. And yo, first draft of a new poem.

SHROOM HUNT

High life burning.

Swamp beacons.

Blue stains, spreading teeth.

Rotting wood, dung, conceal

Earth tongues. Fleshy to waxy,

Roundish to lumpy.

Puffballs.

Carbon Cushion.

Ustulina deusta

Easily detached.

Bump like. Rolling spore.

Elfin speaker shies away,

Courting lively buttons.

Fairy Ring.

Marasmius oreades

In grass. Good, with caution.

Predator bird alerted.

One eye open.

Scarlett shagged. Bone tortured.

Adapted to a rattle of stars.

Pretty Phaeocollybia.

Phaeocollybia fallax

Radishy. Under Sitka.

Flustered. Melodious.

Moss biography.

Trap door to dream state

Always open.

Reddening Lepioata.

Lepiota americana

Free gills. Smooth. Bruised.

Partial veil, morals cultivated

In the pit of a honeycombed head.

Nothing frivolous about the search.

Still, velvety mischief abounds.