Xyris

(dedicated to Ms. Sandra Fowler, a great poet at poemhunter) grassy leaves yellow-eyed grass small yellow flowers endogenous herbs scaly-bracted spikes around Northern pole grows from axil of a leathery bract dehiscent capsule fruit a basal aggregation dioecious small, a spherical cylindrical spike, inflorescence distichous, linear flat and thin or round with a conspicuous sheath at the base a single flower bud on the spike appears in the morning; in afternoon hours expands into a conspicuous flower colder wind blow tenderly in the Atlantic Autumn dawn break wakes up smoothly our deep feelings if we cure each other can we stay longer in this dependent love and dream? if we cure the world can we stay longer in this misty vision of life and death? (inspired by Jean Sibelius' Tapiola)