Critical Appreciation of “A Work of Artifice” by Marge Piercy
Poem: “A Work of Artifice” by Marge PiercyThe bonsai treein the attractive potcould have grown eighty feet tallon the side of a mountaintill split by lightning.But a gardenercarefully pruned it.It is nine inches high.Every day as hewhittles back the branchesthe gardener croons,It is your natureto be small and cozy,domestic and weak;how lucky, little tree,to have … Read more