<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452605" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>A Work of Artifice</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The bonsai tree<br>in the attractive pot<br>could have grown eighty feet tall<br>on the side of a mountain<br>till split by lightning.<br>But a gardener<br>carefully pruned it.<br>It is nine inches high.<br>Every day as he<br>whittles back the branches<br>the gardener croons,<br>It is your nature<br>to be small and cozy,<br>domestic and weak;<br>how lucky, little tree,<br>to have a pot to grow in.<br>With living creatures<br>one must begin very early<br>to dwarf their growth:<br>the bound feet,<br>the crippled brain,<br>the hair in curlers,<br>the hands you<br>love to touch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Marge+Piercy">Marge Piercy</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=452605" data-title="A Work of Artifice de Marge Piercy" data-description="The bonsai tree in the attractive pot could have grown eighty feet tall on the side of a mountain till split by lightning. But a gardener carefully pruned it. It is nine inches high. Every day as he whittles back the branches the gardener croons, ..."></div> </div> </div>

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