From the book:
Earthstars, Chanterelles, Destroying Angels
Ten-thousand shapes
colors and sizes—fungi
grow from the earth’s moist skin,
from the duff under oak and pine, or open sky.
Soft bodies, fleshed from irrepressible forms,
erupt from mycelium, the rootlets underground.
This life, wonderful and various,
is gilled, bracketed, bulbous, or tubed
a kingdom moved from spores
by wind and water.
If we eat it we can find
delight or death, or nothing at all.
Earthstars, Chanterelles, Destroying Angels—
may have housed the ancient gods
and goddesses, may have roofed
the sky of Heaven, may have formed
the lava carpet of Hell.
Mushrooms: poems
waiting beneath my skin
for networks of sound and shape
to meet the page and the ear.
Myriad poems await
a life in the light, to name
the spirits of this place.
Walt Franklin is a German-born American poet, educator and naturalist who lives in upstate New York with his wife, Leighanne. He fly-fishes, hikes, and finds himself involved with various environmental restoration projects. His many books of poetry and prose include Beautiful Like a Mayfly (Wood Thrush Books, 2015), Sand & Sage (Great Elm Press, 2010), and The Wild Trout (Nightshade Press, 1989). An active blogger since 2011, Franklin's Rivertop Rambles can be read at www.rivertoprambles.wordpress.com.
Earthstars, Chanterelles, Destroying Angels
is a 72 page hand-sewn paper book with spine. $15.00
Release date 3/3/16
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