40-acre growth found in Michigan. <br /> — The Los Angeles Times <br /> <br /> <br />The sky is full of ruddy ducks <br />and widgeon's, mockingbirds, <br />bees, bats, swallowtails, <br />dragonflies, and great horned owls. <br /> <br />The land below teems with elands <br />and kit foxes, badgers, aardvarks, <br />juniper, banana slugs, larch, <br />cactus, heather, humankind. <br /> <br />Under them, a dome of dirt. <br />Under that, the World's <br />Largest Living Thing spreads <br />like a hemorrhage poised <br /> <br />to paralyze the earth—like a tumor <br />ready to cause 9.0 convulsions, <br />or a brain dreaming this world <br />of crickets and dung beetles, <br /> <br />sculpins, Beethoven, coots, <br />Caligula, St. Augustine grass, Mister <br />Lincoln roses, passion fruit, wildebeests, <br />orioles like sunspots shooting high, <br /> <br />then dropping back to the green <br />arms of trees, their roots <br />sunk deep in the power <br />of things sleeping and unknown.<br /><br />Charles Harper Webb<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/giant-fungus/
