Monday, June 3, 2013

Mushrooms Imitation By Sanjana Mahesh

Toadstools
Croak goes the toad
Ranidaphobia on full blast
tears well up
self diagnosed and unmedicated
maybe mushrooms will help
toadstools be the cause
mushrooms be the cure
­that sounds deliberately ironic
the thought of sharing the high of nature
isn’t wrong
communing over bread and butter
but laid in grass
the repentance of inhale and exhale amplified
sparkling the dark bright, guided lanterns
fireflies fighting frogs


Mushrooms
Like silent naked monks huddled
around an old tree stump, having
spun themselves in the night
out of thought and nothingness—

And God so pleased with their silence
He grants them teeth and tongues.

Like us.

How long have you been gone?
A child’s hot tears on my bare arms.


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