Wisteria

Joy in the Mundane #1

The Beauty- Photo by Ashe

Oh!

You beautiful thing.

So Lush and fragrant.

You tower over the others, stealing their light

But that’s Ok

You summon the bumble bees

Fat, slow, happy to buzz about and fly into

my forehead.

People drive by in the spring and summer

Just to see you

to gaze

upon your lilac beauty.

And yet-

You are not what you appear to be, are you, darling?

You are not native,

and have no intention to adapt.

You mean to invade

to be

invasive.

Ah, yes, your roots

they steal the vital resources

from your native friends

and you were not made to share

the light.

Your treacherous roots transgressed

to choke the life from both plant

and the very foundation

of my home.

Me!!

I was rooting for you!!

(No pun intended. Mostly.)

Others warned me. I object!!

But you tried to choke the life from us all

to take over life and limb.

Home!!

Foundation!!

Sidewalk?!?!

I DON’T EVEN OWN THAT

We must at once contain her-!

We despair—

Or Not.

Nature vs Nature

The unexpected Straightline winds

Thoroughly uprooted you

Unceremoniously.

How the Mighty Have Fallen-photo by Ashe

Alas.

So beautiful, so invasive, so wrong for the land.

Years later your children try to pop up here and there

and as I pull them up and dig out the root

I remember

when we took the chainsaws

to your vines.