April 11

Truly there is no getting away from it:
Dolores got locked in her house today
and it took hours to get her out.
The sweet potato vines from last year’s garden
sprang up again, even in this winter.
Dolores she says they were angry,
she says they knew what they were doing
when they choked themselves tight
around her doorknobs and grew those
deformed little leaves that plugged up
the keyholes. She says those tubers, those
relatives of bindweed are going to be
in her nightmares. She went out into the yard
to try to turn them back under.