Quotation by William Jay Smith

Not ringed but rare, not gilled but polyp-like, having sprung up
overnight—

These mushrooms of the gods, resembling human organs uprooted,
rooted only on the air,
William Jay Smith (b. 1918), U.S. poet. Morels (l. 12–13). . .

Book of Nature Poems, A. William Cole, comp. (1969) The Viking Press.
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