Written for and inspired by Orchid from Venus

By Jeff Reeve

so odd so very very odd

to see a flower

from venus

land in my front yard

near the porch steps

as if the newspaper carrier had thrown

where it might land

perhaps my onetime venus woman

gifted her flower to the wrong man

so odd so very very odd

an orchid none the less

like the ones carved in the stone

of roman temples

to worship the goddess of love

her bounteous beauty awakening

erotic exotic energy

enlarging virility

encouraging fertility

enflaming passion

so odd so very very odd

that the woman I worshipped

who owned my soul

years ago

long after she'd left

long after breaking my heart

long after declaring we are aliens

from differnt planets

now she sends me a sensual orchid of

erotic exotic energy

so odd so very very odd