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