Shroomery

infusion of medicinal mushrooms
witch's strainer filtering fungal matter
resulting tea mixed with whiskey to dilute
unpleasant taste...[Sage Sweetwater]

religious fungus
attaches itself around
the quaker broom, neopaganism
sweeps the courtroom ground, for it
is the malleus maleficarum on trial, the
witch-hunting manual of the protestants
and catholics, the witch smellers,

we, folk magicians
divine healers, cunning
and consorting with fairy
familiars, mediators between
the mundane and spiritual worlds,
otherworldly given to prophecy in
participation of battles of evil, we won
fertility and prosperity for our community,

our religious magic
employed to turn malevolence
aside and identify evil-doers,

eclectic wiccan,
key of solomon,
ordo templi orientis,
duotheistic is the occult
movement,

kombucha tea
effervescent beverage
fermenting ascension,
symbiosis, a large pancake
looking cloud, mother of vinegar,
yeast of our rise, their fall ... shroomery.

Copyright Ms. Sage Sweetwater, firebrand lesbian novelist
Sage Sweetwater endorses Kombucha tea with rosehips in your local herbal emporium