Foxfire

[ChristopherSea]

Chris,

There's a fungus among us You didn't get this idea from "My Babysitter's a Vampire", did you? "pubescence" is also a double entendre. All in all it is a bit hairy. Tom should get a kick out of this. Well the internet is certainly "decaying wood". We have reached the end of the Roman Empire in only 10 years "cyber pubescence". "et tu brute?"

Dale

I saw Tom, that old toad, on a stool today! Thanks for checking this out Dale. Those bits of optical hair have brought us all together. No, I didn't see that movie, but I did see 'Adventures in Babysitting.' I do like contrasting nature with technology though./Chris

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Yes fogglethorpe, I know it isn't either of those forms; it's just a short form. I thought it would be interesting to compare internet cables/fibers to fungi mycelium. Foxfire is a bioluminescent fungi that grows and glows on decaying wood. It is also the name of a web browser of course (firefox that is). Hyphae are the growing fibers of fungi. Mushrooms are the differentiated fruiting bodies of fungi that can serve as sexual reproductive factories. You take the double entendre of Foxfire, mix it with the analogies of wires and hyphae; glow in the dark fungi with optical fibers and mushrooms with pubescence and you get this little poem that no one will appreciate. Thanks for giving it a look! Cheers/Chris

I like your poem! For me, the terminology gets in the way of the message though, and the poem becomes self-conscious and kind of gawky.

Bioluminescence is fascinating. I have to go find a poem I wrote about it - here - just as gawky

suprachiasmatic nucleii



From the site of your third eye
circadian oscillations
locked on local time
keep track.

Ralph and Menaker found them
while experimenting with
foetal tau mutant hamsters
following Hastings and Sweeney
‘s work with bio-
luminescent
dino-
flagellate
algae.

Every living organism
on the planet
automatically registers
intersections of time
and space, compares readings
with birthplace
and lets you know
just how far
you are
from home.

Cosmic GPS
automatically
tracking your life - why?
It's all
chronobiology
to me.

Thank you for your time and critique Mercedes, especially for sharing your clever luciferous poem! This scientist enjoyed it. You are probably right about this three liner. I usually draft these fake-ku's to capture a theme that I may one day elaborate into a poem. Cheers/Chris