Surprise bouquet

I love grocery store flower bouquets.  They come with interesting names like Celebration, or  Surprise.  The last bouquet came with a green butterfly on a wire.  Now it is the only thing in the flower vase.  A reminder.

The only thing left

Of the surprise bouquet

Is the butterfly.

The roses, deep yellow,

The gerbera daisies, splinted straight,

The eucalyptus,

They have all made their way to mulch.

The butterfly

(It came with the surprise)

Stays wired, still sways in the vase.

It reminds me

Of the bouquet,

A placeholder,

Unlikely green butterfly,

Reminiscent of nothing identifiable

To those with butterfly knowledge.

But still

A reminder of all

That surprises

Over and over again.