Thank you, Brittany Saulnier, for the invitation to bring some science knowledge and learning into poetry form. A few years ago, I thought my tree was dying. I saw a light green substance covering the bark, and the tree was dropping its leaves so much earlier than other trees. I took a picture to a local nursery and was told it was lichen. I spent some time researching, and I think I might have written a poem back then.
My students are writing tanka and haiku poems in class, so I decided to write a haiku.
Lichen is...
algae and fungi
in a symbiotic dance
protector of trees
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