Molly Davidson
Ode to the Mushroom
I know what it is
to burst from the earth
against all capital
to fruit something
wicked & ancient.
Gills below a flat
scarlet cap, cantillating
secrets to filaments
of milky mycelium
which say on we go on.
Arboreal mothers
to microbial saints,
I’ll pray tiny
prayers to you.
Teach me to be
an ancestor
to your forests of spores
which will inherit the world
when we are gone gone.
to burst from the earth
against all capital
to fruit something
wicked & ancient.
Gills below a flat
scarlet cap, cantillating
secrets to filaments
of milky mycelium
which say on we go on.
Arboreal mothers
to microbial saints,
I’ll pray tiny
prayers to you.
Teach me to be
an ancestor
to your forests of spores
which will inherit the world
when we are gone gone.
Biography
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Molly Davidson (she/her) is a lesbian poet and artist with an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her work has previously appeared in Nurture, Superfroot, The Hunger, Rust & Moth, American Chordata, and Stain’d. You can reach her on Twitter @molls_hale or on her website, mollyhaledavidson.com.
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