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Monica Woelfel's avatar

Beautiful, Danusha. I love Ellen's velvety, over-the-top description. And your "slow song of the grass." Yum!

I think you and your subscribers would really enjoy another friend of mine, Brooke Williams. His new book "Encountering Dragonfly" is all about his journey to "re-enchantment" of the natural world, to re-knowing and cherishing the magic of the natural world around us. He's going to be at Bookshop Santa Cruz on April 16. This is not just a plug. I genuinely think you and yours might love this.

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Danusha Laméris's avatar

Thanks, Monica! : ) And hello from here.

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Amanda Wald Rachie's avatar

I'm in Bellingham, WA, and will now look at fungus with new insight.

Your poem is beautiful and lifts my spirits today. Yes. The mystics.

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Melanie Bettinelli's avatar

I am a lover of fungus. I have many photos of beautiful fungi, though I don't think I've ever tried to describe one in a poem. I love the Ellen Bass description. Thank you for sharing it.

I also like your lines.:The pine's long shadow, the slow song of the grass. They really call me to slow down and savor. And the beautiful music of "ruffled edge of a fungus growing on a fallen alder tree" -- the beautiful repetition of the soft f and l and r sounds, with the punctuated patter of the d and g sounds... delightful.

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