On the rotting stump
At the once rugged juncture
Of root and trunk
Now the thick cluster
Of young mushrooms
Shouldering together,
Thrusting their tawny tops
Firm freshed from decay
Just as these new poems rise
Up from the corpse of literature.
DAVID LUNDE
The fungus called truffles can cost $800 to $1,500 per pound. They are sniffed out by female pigs, which detect a compound that is in the saliva of male pigs as well. The same chemical is found in the sweat of human males.
