The tongues of those P’Tonatl lick Champiñongo’s cap.

Gills, tubes, striations, pores, plaques, zonations.

Cuticle separating scales and wartes and striations, volva, scales, stalk rising.

Spits, expels, sinks, stinks, dissolving P’Tonatl in their shadow, vortex.

Champiñongo’s eyes watch from the outside in.

Rowdy mycelium.

Spores.

Lots of spores.

Darkness and silence.