Artifice
The bonsai tree in a shallow pot
may have grown to eighty feet
on the side of a mountain
til split by lightening
A gardener carefully prunes
whittles the nine inch tree
and croons,
"It is your nature to be small and cozy
domestic and weak;
how fortunate little one
to have a pot in which to grow."
With living creatures
one must begin very early
to dwarf their growth.
Bound feet and bosom
crippled brain
soft hands to caress.
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