Rising from the forest floor
A bubble
Smooth
Nonstriate
Pure white
She blossoms
Her membranous volva
Falling away to reveal
The phallus stem
Reaching for the filtered light
She is veiled by annulus hem
And wears a viscid cap
Moist
Underlaid
With gills of gray
Amanita virosa
Of the family Amanitaceae
Dainty and shy
The scent of old roses
Smelling faintly of decay
Voluptuous
She opens her lamellae
To release her angel spore
And sow destruction
All across the forest floor
