Art sweeps through your dream like loving monsoons
creating rather than destroying: art
center’s slanted painting causing friend’s swoon
of delight. Wee Japanese lady’s pot
a propagating salad as she clips
leaves from its center—a small bonsai tree—
itself an artform in China, landscapes
of Vietnam, sacred to Japanese.
Near Osaka, some 19th-century
scholars renamed miniature pensai
arbor sculptures (so the artful jury
said) to image reality: bonsai,
literally plantings in tray, their bran-
ches like multi-armed dancers swaying fans.
Roger
April 6, 2011
