Lichtenstein’s Bonsai Tree

Bonsai Tree
Lichtenstein 1992

Not with the fictile
copper wire
I used to bend young branches
to my way of seeing

Nor with adolescent
spruce, Japanese quince and yew

Nor with earth and
sun and water
and the patience of years

But with white hot ovens, solder and the glint of steel
Did Roy capture the essence of bonsai