Clade Song 12

Bio Char

do you believe in this leaving

pyrolysis or paralysis lysis all the same – cell death – prison caramelized ?

the absence of oxygen formerly known as suffocation is required to prevent COMBUSTION

does it burn all the way down

powdered milk
weed

we must create a new disturbance regime

what if you can’t take your mind off of it biomass fuel crispening

habitable space for hyphae once upon a phosphorus transfer

within a new context there is much that is inconsequential

inoculate the structure to accelerate colonization

amend and
amend

Susan Charkes lives in southeastern Pennsylvania. Her poetry chapbook, sp., was published in 2017 (The Operating System). Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Amethyst Review, Arsenic Lobster, Cider Press Review, Cleaver, Denver Quarterly, Gargoyle, Magma, 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. Her poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. She is a member of Tenth Sky Poets. More at susancharkes.com.