Madam, you are enticing me again;
you are tickling my funny bone
with these mushrooms you have grown
up in the night.
They are the tender oddments of
your thought:
Stinkhorns,
Earth Stars, Corals and Clubs,
graceful or gross, bland or gall
and I have stolen them to lay along
a paper towel.
Trapped again, enchanted,
I am your creature.
You have made me smile,
raining down your storm of dusty fingerprints:
miniature nebulae,
coronas behind black stars.
After a long hiatus working as a journalist, Ann Meredith Cale is writing poetry again. In the 1980s her poems appeared in US1: An Anthology: Contemporary Writing from New Jersey, the U.S. 1# Worksheet, and the Berkeley Poet's Co-op Worksheets. In 1980, she received a grant from the New Jersey Council of the Arts for a poetry manuscript.
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