Almost Ivy League
The plants grew
up the South wall
of the building
from the ground
the red brick chipping off
the vines holding it together
their waxy green hands
overlapping one another
I had been admiring the vines
for about an hour and a half
which had climbed
up the wall
for about a year
when a stout woman came
and unceremoniously
cut them with a garden shear.
