The name doesn't fit:
Your eye's not an eye--
So much like brown velvet.
Susan~
The Hebrew Shoshanna
The name of the lily.
But you're the cousin
Of the sunflower and daisy.
Susan, oh Susan,
You old friend of mine,
What then was your name
When the Maker made time?
Yellow for joy~
Reminder of heaven*--
Multi flowers in brown**--
Keeper of secrets,
In simplicity renown.
--Marie Byars, 2019 (c)
*Romans chapter 8: all creation waits to be renewed when Christ returns.
**The "center" in flowers in the composite family is a cluster of minute flowers. What are often called the petals are really "rays."
St. Paul, Minnesota; July, 2019
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| Botanical Gardens Albuquerque, NM |
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| Lake County (suburban Chicago), Illinois; July, 2018 |
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| The ones which inspired this poem Prescott, Arizona; August, 2019 My own, which came up a year later:   A field of Black-eyed Susans that became naturalized in Flagstaff, AZ October, 2022:   |
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| Black-eyed Susans in south central Texas get a maroon hue near the center |
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