a destroying angel...

'Amanita abrupta'
found in Wayne National Forest,
Athens Co., Ohio, USA ,
a photo by Dan Molter ©

a destroying angel 

she wondered 

if I was too heather-ed 

a tethered and tendered 

upon thee moment 

of anvil to hammer nigh

she looked out the window

and began to recite 

herself with improvisation...

"... the rain will come 

for few days in a row 

a climbed cloud 

to sea again 

therapeutic spawn

crawled all in(s) 

arrested by kingdom fungi 

will you doth rise 

and breathe as we...?"

"...can you be, 

plant and animal 

nutritive wonderment 

and toxic courier 

will you accept 

being born deep rooted 

into a womb-treed land 

as where your seed stands...?"

"...can you know 

where shade and light 

play games of seasons 

between the fight 

of maples, oaks 

and pines..."

"...will you mindfully

cry for us angels...?", 

she asks...

"...with our beautiful skins 

veils, textures 

and surprise...

can you deny 

us, your thrones 

and altars...?"

EJR ©