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| puffball spores, magnified x5000 |
Puffball
Poor little
puffball in a patch
of deathcaps
poison left
and right hallucinations.
Who’d want to pick her?
Muffin-capped,
fat, brown and sturdy,
dark spores ripe
and pushing,
she twirls her black umbrella;
out they fly past death.
Resting now
she sleeps unknowing;
clouds gather,
soft rainfall
springs up far away children
anyone can pick.
June 2011
Three linked shadormas
"While most puffballs are not poisonous, some often look similar to young agarics, especially the deadly Amanitas, such as the Death Cap mushroom." ~wikipedia
The shadorma is a Spanish verse form. It has six lines with a syllable pattern:3/5/3/3/7/5
Image: Puffball spores in SEM stereoscopic, by Secret Disk
courtesy wikimedia commons
