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Edith Tiempo Edith Tiempo Edith Tiempo: Bonsai Bonsai Bonsai

The poem is about folding and keeping one's most cherished things, like love, in a small space, like a box or one's hands. It describes scaling down overwhelming emotions and experiences to a miniature size that can be easily held and contained. This process of condensing and collecting what is most meaningful is portrayed as a feat of heart control that makes life and love feel real and tangible.

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Edith Tiempo Edith Tiempo Edith Tiempo: Bonsai Bonsai Bonsai

The poem is about folding and keeping one's most cherished things, like love, in a small space, like a box or one's hands. It describes scaling down overwhelming emotions and experiences to a miniature size that can be easily held and contained. This process of condensing and collecting what is most meaningful is portrayed as a feat of heart control that makes life and love feel real and tangible.

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Bonsai Bonsai Bonsai

Edith Tiempo Edith Tiempo Edith Tiempo


All that I love All that I love All that I love
I fold over once I fold over once I fold over once
And once again And once again And once again
And keep in a box And keep in a box And keep in a box
Or a slit in a hollow post Or a slit in a hollow post Or a slit in a hollow post
Or in my shoe. Or in my shoe. Or in my shoe.
All that I love? All that I love? All that I love?
Why, yes, but for the moment- Why, yes, but for the moment- Why, yes, but for the moment-
And for all time, both. And for all time, both. And for all time, both.
Something that folds and keeps Something that folds and keeps Something that folds and keeps
easy, easy, easy,
Son’s note or Dad’s one gaudy Son’s note or Dad’s one gaudy Son’s note or Dad’s one gaudy
tie, tie, tie,
A roto picture of a queen, A roto picture of a queen, A roto picture of a queen,
A blue Indian shawl, even A blue Indian shawl, even A blue Indian shawl, even
A money bill. A money bill. A money bill.
It’s utter sublimation, It’s utter sublimation, It’s utter sublimation,
A feat, this heart’s control A feat, this heart’s control A feat, this heart’s control
Moment to moment Moment to moment Moment to moment
To scale all love down To scale all love down To scale all love down
To a cupped hand’s size To a cupped hand’s size To a cupped hand’s size
Till seashells are broken pieces Till seashells are broken pieces Till seashells are broken pieces
From God’s own bright teeth, From God’s own bright teeth, From God’s own bright teeth,
And life and love are real And life and love are real And life and love are real
Things you can run and Things you can run and Things you can run and
Breathless hand over Breathless hand over Breathless hand over
To the merest child. To the merest child. To the merest child.

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