cut · roots emerged · pot ready
ivy takes its time and then takes everything. for the first ten days the cutting does nothing the eye can see. then the lower node whitens, then thickens, then it has put out a small foot. once it finds glass to lean on it is settled.
do not let the jar dry. ivy in water is fragile in a way that ivy on a wall is not. the cut leaves remember being outside in a different kind of light; turn the jar a quarter every few days so it does not grow lopsided towards the window.
related: the attic-creeper upstairs that this was probably descended from once, the long ritual of evening checks, the threshold it will eventually want to cross, and the conservatory humid air.
field note — it has begun to grip the lip of the jar with what i can only describe as a small intention.