Bonsai

Sculpted symmetry
In botanical haiku:
A meditation

On rooted beauty
Pared to spiritual essence
Pre-Mies van der Rohe

Or pious Quakers
For whom simplicity was
Art--both means and end

Illusion of dance,
Miniature arabesque
In graceful (re)pose--

Aesthetics distilled
In sentient architecture--
Still life perfected