Still Here

I planted ivy
on your grave,

but it didn’t thrive —
only in the house,

where the tiny one 
you brought me

grew fast, multiplied
from careful cuttings

into twelve big pots
that crowded the sills. 

As they slowly turned
into riot, 

I remember you said
you can’t save everything.

LISA FLECK DONDIEGO

Lisa Fleck Dondiego’s work has appeared in Salamander, The Sigh Press Literary Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, and others, as well as in several anthologies. Her chapbook, A Sea Change, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011. She is currently working on a collection of poems about the death of a loved one from alcoholism and lives in Ossining, NY.