Sunflower Interrupted

Grotesque, alien flowers
Line the highway
Their three-petaled heads
Languishing in the windless, gray dawn.

Nearby, a solitary sunflower
Lifts her head
And beckons the sun.
A gentle breeze
Soon follows.

The aliens tilt their heads,
Unrelenting shadows
Slice her upturned face.

Sunflower sighs
And follows the sun.
Dreams of an unmarred sky.