Mushroom

I woke up this morning to this 

little miracle mushroom growing

on the balcony. I never planted it. 

My screen keeps airborne seeds 

from alighting onto a faux field. 

I’ve never had a fungi grow 

out there before. It’s like a little thought 

that suddenly presented itself 

and started growing in hope

of becoming a full fledged sentence 

that will eventually adapt into a paragraph 

that with the help of colluding elements    

draws down the attention 

of a lumbering careless giant 

who drops to his knees 

in helpless wonder to know more 

of it’s mysterious story which 

he imagines surely 

included tears and a journey.

09/13/21