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Aesthetes

Holly Day

What is it that makes someone
want to destroy the gigantic white umbrellas of mushrooms spreading
out over the lawn from one day to the next, growing ever larger
impossibly fantastic, until that one day when you walk by
to find the giant white cap split in two, surrounded by dirt clods, uprooted grass
a single footprint in the mud next to the destruction?

And what makes someone think that no one else would appreciate seeing
how big and wonderful this mushroom could get, how,
if just left alone for the rest of the season, it could get big enough
for a rabbit to hide beneath it during a thunderstorm
for a frog to huddle beneath its spreading shade
for a toddler to squat in wonder beside it, face dwarfed
by the mushroom’s impossible size—

why would I think anyone else wanted to see this?

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