by Angela Hoffman

Tan, dull, pinhead fungi placed among the stagnant 
take their time in bringing forth life.  
The listless stop their ineffective feeding off themselves
in their endless search for something more. 
Slowly, there is movement 
community feeding off of each other 
a life-giving breath 
bubbling into a holy, honest, whole. 
With spiritual simplicity, all are lifted, raised 
to be broken and shared  
once over. 

Angela Hoffman lives in Wisconsin. Her poetry has appeared in Solitary Plover, Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets Museletter and calendar, Agape Review, Verse-Virtual, Visual Verse, and Your Daily Poem.com. Her first chapbook (Resurrection Lily, Kelsay Books) is scheduled for release in 2022. She committed to writing a poem a day during the pandemic. Spirituality and nature often inspire her poetry.