SPARK

Inspiration

Jane Hulstrunk

Response

(Partially Fostered by Conks and Other Planar Groupings)

© KJ Hannah Greenberg

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Conks and other planar groupings,

Grow up suckling, rending coarse

Debris from flora-type relations.

Pores, spores, sundry bits of broken

Fiber, feeding filaments in concert.

Strange, yet absolutely staid, strands slough

For truffle hunters, folks seeking forest food.

Rangers, furthest remote persons, relay

Surveys, knots, first-aid, compasses, and scat,

Fire-starting, cloth-style signaling, maybe

Leadership. Such men avoid all grand mammals

Hungering for outdoor suppers; tasting,

S’mores, corn, coal-baked chops, ‘tater boats,

Bits, pieces, toes, fingers, fleshy parts.

Afterwards, upland dwellers, dying out,

Morph from fear to fright as malls,

Housing, highways, factories, schools,

Displace mating, hunting, itching, gathering.

Then furries without new gene pools grasp

Human nibbles make poor nutrition, taste salty,

Compost, nonetheless, to augment rising fungi.