“Observe the cautious toadstools
still on the lawn today
though they grow over-evening;
sun shrinks them away.
Pale and proper and rootless,
they righteously extort
their living from the living.
I have been their sort….”
Sunday Sayings: An extract from W.D. Snodgrass’ “Song” to illustrate this toadstool photo
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