To Fungi & Their Hosts — the Intimates

Oh you, the living & damp – 
the fungi desire to lie with you. 
Oh you, the expired & seeking exit –
the fungi reach out 
to break you down. 
Oh you ancient blue-greens – 
the fungi wish to meld with you  
flesh to flesh & flourish. 
Oh honey and barley – 
the fungi yearn to promote 
your Dionysian transformation.  
Oh finest fir roots – 
the fungi seek you out  
to knit, parlay & thrive. 

Humble-seeming pilgrims. Penetrants.
Nets & nests of filaments, brews of cells.
We praise your frothy heads of mead
& bow before your humped-up 
fruit-swells of fog & forest soil – 
your original
time-lapse
mushroom   
clouds.