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Mycorrhizal 

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , , on November 13, 2026| Leave a Comment »


                  for Alan Cohen and the Wellspring of Imagination
 
 
And if one man should have a dream
to create in the deep Ohio woods
a space where strangers might gather
for days to sit in a circle in a bright, 
warm room and listen to each other read poems, 
well, that is the world I want to live in,
a world in which we are held by a fragile, 
then strengthening trust, a faith
that we will be received as we are,
where the only requirement for belonging
is that we show up with respect and 
a willingness to share. In the forest itself, 
there are vast invisible underground webs 
made of branching masses of slender threads
that connect the soil and plants and trees
because each has something the other needs.
And is our work not also mycelial?
Do we not nourish each other
through our differences? 
Do our lives not also depend on receiving 
each other’s gifts and honoring 
the wounds that activated them? 
I want to live in the world where this small
circle expands—a world where it’s not just one 
vast-dreaming man, but millions of us dreaming, 
all of us devoted to a living system 
in which we exchange our goodness 
and trade our stories, a world where trust 
spreads like hyphae, constantly expanding, 
a world where “stranger” is just another word 
for a person who needs something we have to offer,
a person who has something we desperately need.

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