Consider andropogon:
Having done with green
She stands, no longer pliant
Her yellow-dusted stamens spent.
Her stems have learned the ways of wind
To launch the next generation
Her seed-spangled hair unpinned
She ages with earned abandon
Published in Cider Press Review, Volume 23, Issue 3.
Susan Charkes lives in southeastern Pennsylvania. Her poetry chapbook, sp., was published in 2017 (The Operating System). Poems have appeared in Arsenic Lobster, Cleaver, Denver Quarterly, Gargoyle, The Matador Review, Paper Nautilus, Posit, Prick of the Spindle, Redactions, Scripta, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Spoon River Poetry Review, Storyscape, The Wax Paper, What Rough Beast, and elsewhere. She is a member of the Montco Wordshop and Tenth Sky Poets. More at www.susancharkes.com.See all items about Susan Charkes
