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Surprise [2]

Text of Poem

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.

First Line
Some friends of ours decided to
Original Pub Location
Original Publication Date
1977
Original Citation
Christian Science Monitor, 13 Dec. 1977, p25
Complete Poems
337
Word Count
69
Variant

DIfferent poem with same name published in 1957.

Poetic Form
open
Bibliographic Notes

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

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