Silent Gathering

POEM

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A year of silence
on the mushroom-media soil,

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where the spores
drift away
on a low-range wind,

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where the withered accounts
hang on a string
above the chimney,

dried

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yet still nourishing.

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The mushroomer
in the room
on a silent hunt
with ineffable fear
of losing her way
in the webby woods.

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