i keep the plant in a perfect portable pot 

because by the time the plant has spread out its roots 

far            and            wide            enough

*So* tangled with the others it is camouflaged

i must rip it out.

The roots, disintegrating away to become nothing

Fertile land so other plants can 

                                             Sprout

                                                        Grow

                                                                  Thrive

But no.

i place my plant in a 

Perfect 

Portable 

Pot 

My hands gripping onto as much soil as one can 

Because God forbid it find a perfect plot of land 

For it to                f        l       o       o       d ,    

Have a drought

The little girl ripped of the “care instruction sticker”

Now 11 years later

i do not know the perfect temperature or conditions the plant should live in 

Adaptable (or not) to moving environments

It has no option but to endure winters

It should have never endured

Hoping it won’t die off, like so many others have before

My plant

Not only does not have more than a-palms-length-of-space 

To mark its history

It breathes out 

                      carbon

not oxygen

Destroying itself before any flood or drought can.