Into the garden of our new house Our neighbor's English vines Tunneled under a retaining wall Not equal to containing all The debris of a cracked couple Growing sicker and sicker
By night our neighbors' invading vines Rooted into my dreams from underground Twined their nooses around our lives Branching out manically They choked our sycamore And grew thicker and thicker
When I finally scaled their fence To kill the source of this malevolence Were my neighbors watching me From their house I hacked away? Vines like these root too deep to kill We keep our blinds closed now forever