latent

the snow retreats, a dormant world's revealed
a thousand mittens that were lost are found
old spores can germinate in woods and field
impatient in the slowly-warming ground
mycelia seem barely to grow old
'though fruiting bodies wither in the night
the life of what we sneeringly call 'mold'
is mostly underground and out of sight
instead of chlorophyl, strange alkaloids
distinguish fungi from the standard crops
and some are worth as much avoirdupois
as gold--if you can get them past the cops
although his colleagues mutters he was odd
Allegro knew that 'shrooms had shown him God