Green Leafy Forest

 

By Mushroom Montoya

 

I floated down the zig zag path

To cast a net around those trees,

To get down on my knees,

And scoop a bowl full of gurgling stream,

Sprinkled with moss, berries, and banana slug slime.

 

I opened my pockets just in time

To pour the quacks and chirps

The birds and ducks dropped along the shore.

 

I wanted clouds to carve a trail

from where you are

To the dragonflies,

whose gossamer wings

Sing sparkling starlight into our eyes.

 

I wrapped a box with buzzing of bees

And tied it with a ribbon of mossy aroma

From the moistened forest floor.

 

When you open the box
You’ll feel the fox

Stroke your cheek

With evergreen ferns

Growing at all of the turns

And twists with the will o’the wisp

Of this green leafy forest.