Outside my house

For fifty years,

flourished next to the shack

Here before.

Tall blossoms with carnivorous smiles

Sideways yellow, ivory, indigo

taller than my cat

Taller than a man.

Flower faces peer through the window

Watching me

All nonchalant and indifferent

But I know better

They are just waiting

To see me naked.

Well

I am a bit of an exhibitionist anyway.