Of Colonies & Conveyor Belts


Make-shift shaped & weather lacquered the boards of the old Cloud Acre shed host colonies of emerald & rust lichens Loose planks tossed & forgotten only to be found face-up in winter’s dormant grasses are sure to be honeycombed with mycelia’s alabaster threads racing in the dark  conveyor belt of kin-shared nutrients


____________$______________ NOTA BENE


Ki is a grammatical neologism indigenous science writer Robin Wall Kimmerer uses in place of it or its to help correct English’s objectification of the world by changing


the way we speak of inanimate things. Te term is harvested from the last syllable of a longer word in Pottawattamie for an “earth being.” Tat end sound “ki” itself derives from a word meaning “from the earth, the animate living earth”


ART GOODTIMES Colorado


56 FUNGI Volume 15:1 Winter 2022


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