A Work of Imagination

The bonsai tree
thrives
on seeds of thought,
swelling, bursting, stemming,
spreading.
This bonsai tree defies
normality, typicality;
this gardener croons
my single loved tree,
you were meant to
grow, to invade,
to stretch your roots
to break the pot
and he waters
and weeds
and pushes the tree
to flourish.
The bonsai tree changes
in a fluctuating spread
of elms, birches, oaks,
and this is good,
and this is right,
and this is intellectually
beloved.