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Military Mushrooms

msjadeli

faerie ring

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These rings or semi-circular arcs show up in the lawn with regularity, but usually in the back yard.  This fall a sizeable bough from one of the willows fell and laid there for a month or so.  It was finally cut into pieces and hauled away, but it left behind what the photo is showing.

 

Faerie’s fungi march,

step by step,

around the yard.

Sprouting weeks ago,

frost has spoiled

their crisp caps and gills.

Deer pawed and nibbled,

they are unbowed.

Hardy soldiers

won’t be so easily stopped.

As the campaign proceeds

they are snowed in,

at ease.

dverse prompt — quadrille with spoil

Published by msjadeli

mother, gardener, retired government worker, observer, reader, learner, bicyclist, woman who runs with the wolves, lover of music!

20 thoughts on “Military Mushrooms”

  4. thank you so much and glad you enjoyed it. i tried to put something in there about them being rooftops under the snow for the mice but couldn’t manage it 🙂

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  6. thank you. and they are! i see them out of the front window every time i walk by. they are growing even after all of this sub-freezing temperature and snow. not sure how, but they are

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