You startled me
Yes,
you there,
your smooth cap
protruding out
within the night.
An underbelly of gills
what hides
between them?
The earth throbs with cicadas
and you look
potently inviting.
All the mycologists
who crafted
exquisite nomenclature
to your varied parts,
your sublime anatomy,
hardly disguised
their erotic fantasies.
Salivating now
at Volva,
Hymenium,
Pileus,
Annulus.
Imagining
delicious flavours,
in a smoky Andean kitchen.
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.
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As a student of Mycology, I have always been intrigued by the names ascribed to Fungi and how the morphology or the anatomy find parallels in human life. The parts of a regular mushroom could translate as nothing other than sheer eroticism.