Surprise [2]

Some friends of ours decided to
make a little money on the side
and grow mushrooms. They covered
the garage floor with dirt, sprinkled
the spore over it, wet it down and
hoped for the best. But nothing,
absolutely nothing happened. After
a few months they shoveled out
the earth, spread it on the lawn,
cleaned the garage. After the first
warm June rain the lawn mushroomed
with mushrooms.

    Original Citation
    Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 1977, p25
    Word Count
    69
    Original Publication
    Date Published
    1977
    Complete Poems
    337
    Variant

    DIfferent poem with same name published in 1957.

    Theme(s)
    First Line
    Some friends of ours decided to
    Poetic Form
    open
    Bibliographic Notes

    Ward conflates two different poems with the same name. Corrected in Complete.

    Twitter Quote
    After the first / warm June rain the lawn mushroomed / ​with mushrooms.