Settler
I am vine of English Ivy
working my way across the forest floor
encroaching on every space
a colony of green unhindered
I plant roots, shallow but insidious
I invade
I claim
everywhere, everything
still, I have to be sure
these trees, like mountains or rivers,
are too, mine for the taking
like slithering snakes
my friends and I climb,
still full from our feast
wrap and choke trunk and limb
till the very canopy
becomes our throne
