Always Look it up!

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Up from the quiet expanse
of seeming-luminescent, emerald fur
on thin, purple seta
(nothing more than stiff line,
stalks impossibly supporting)
spore capsules hang,
wet-look, lime-green cylinders.

Mistake them for unopened flowers,as virid over their moss base nowas snowdrops, heads bowed over freckled snow,or, later, bluebells clustered deeply under bolesevoke the swift pangs of our tenderness,

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Mistake them for unopened flowers,
as virid over their moss base now
as snowdrops, heads bowed over freckled snow,
or, later, bluebells clustered deeply under boles
evoke the swift pangs of our tenderness,

here, so as I peer, stoop, kneel
to catch the macro snaps,
wonder again what the seta (stalks) are made of,
so stiff upright, thin as a
few, twisted spider-silks.

These zygote capsules bred on gamete plant -
"Such oddities abounding all around,"

I tell the trembling antenna
of the broad-cased beetle
crawling this way across my weathered table,
triangle stamped on its back from which
it seems an eruption gilded by sunlight -

I tell the trembling antenna of the broad-cased beetlecrawling this way across my weathered table,triangle stamped on its back from whichit seems an eruption gilded by sunlight -

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A stink-bug!

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