Monday, October 29, 2007

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