Chitra Ganesh, How to Assemble a Flying Car (detail), 2018, linocut on tan BFK Rives. Courtesy of the artist & Durham Press.
Bonsai I
In the deadwood style, extensive areas of the plant’s trunk and branches are artificially weathered to look like bleached driftwood.
—Susan Lang, Bonsai
Each part in its fitting unlocks. Roots trained
over black rock, trunk fold a sharp C
sand-coarsed and skinless, extending boughs
teased parallel to the earth. Form wind-bowed
yet there, at the slender tips, a green
reaching, above into the late rain
an offering of leaves, bouquet, psalm
of praise; the storm, the gathering I am.
