Curve, Raggedness, and Tininess Squared

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The thusness of the mushroom is increased

By one orange leaf which falls upon it, so,

An autumn colored cloth a Druid priest

Might lay on sacred objects. Bright death’s glow

Comes up from on an altar made of tree

Trunk. Fifty thousand spores might swell inside

The fungus shape. The leaf and spores agree

To lie beside each other one of them so dyed

In brilliance that it must be doomed to death,

The other urgent in its need to spew

Invisible young life in cloud-like breath

Once microscopic puff begins to strew

The exponential product of this scene.

The leaf computes to beauty this routine.