This is one of my zipper poems
I suggest that you read the left side, read the right side,
then read both sides zippered back and forth together.

Can a Mushroom Change Your Mind?
                                                           

                                                              600 years ago
                     It helped us to see witches
                                                              growing on the seeds of rye,
                             and to know, for sure,
                                                              a fungus put visions of Satan in our eyes and
                           they’re there and up to
                                                              gangrene in our limbs.
                                                 no good.
 
 
                                                              More recently, a scientist discovers
Our modern gods in heaven and on earth
                                                              after handling an artificial derivative,
        don’t quite understand the worth of
                                                              yet another way to knowing
                            the gifts of nature and
                                                              what, in traditional forms, we’ve known for eons.
                the value of our own curiosity.
 
 
                                                              Certain fungi can help us see
                                         An opening to
                                                              what we can’t so easily perceive
        unexplored caverns of consciousness
                                                              widening the doors of reception
                where expectations lose control
                                                              to expand the portals of possibility.
   we see the enhanced magic of our minds.