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Doesn’t Like Being Alone

Janet Kuypers, 09/12/06 #1

So I’ve got clippings from ivy
from my wedding bouquet
that my mother kept alive

and I never had much luck
with keeping the ivy alive
so my two pots of ivy are shared

with other plants, and my
ivy seems contest to
share its space with others

and my mom kept the ivy
thriving, but once she got sick
she couldn’t take care of it

and her ivy in the window sill
pot is pretty much dead now
like mom

I water it daily, not knowing
what else I can do
to resurrect my wedding ivy

but I just noticed, while checking
her other potted plants
in their driveway

that one larger plat in a pot
seems to be losing leaves
so I started running my hand

along the plant, to shake off
any dying leaves all at once
and that’s when I saw it:

mom put a sprig of my
wedding ivy into that plant too
and it was thriving beautifully

there

so maybe, like my ivy at home,
when mom’s not there,
maybe it needs to share

its space with another plant
to thrive, maybe, just maybe,
it doesn’t like being alone

maybe there is hope for things
maybe things will turn out okay
as long as you look hard enough

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