Speck of the Initiate

The holy trinity of fungi, animal, and plant.

A blackberry seed upon the petrified wood egg:

Speck of the initiate.

Can you sense our senescing essence?

Fir trees that stand tall as they die

Like fathers who know all by asking why.

To explain one must drain

The river from the giver

So the receiver retrieves her.

The divine feminine in a Cheshire cat grin

Need not reach out to breach within

As ants eat the spider’s corpse,

The woods repossess my father's porch.

Sky smoke from the neighboring valley’s torch

The sun that dapples dancing through the willows.

Meanwhile roasts the meadows as marshmallows,

Melt in your mouth, influicous

That burnt shell smell for the pillows that fell upon the ashes.

Is not the torturous fortuitous?

Electrocuting conduits circuitous

For the master, look behind the servant brewing this

Settle out of court the pig wigs suing us.

The man with the plan has a limited lifespan

Eyes that scan copy the diaphragm

And a shepherded soul goes on the land

To check for pearls in every clam

And curse the beavers at every dam

To replace their service with our own scam.

I’m carrying the future in my pocket,

Leaking the past out eye sockets

And smoking the love lost in lockets.