Poetry: The Work of the Guide Published: Saturday, June 30, 2012, 10:20 AM Only vines practice scales in gardens, pulling color out from themselves one, 2, up half-step, half-step, half what must be pushed aside to bud, flower, unfold oneself. The trellis serves as cello strings -- neither the crafted precision of the guide nor the straying intervals of tendrils are more prevalent in this relation, the components no more or less organic than Lichtenstein's Ball of Twine: a real painting, a real bundle, a perfect abstraction of a tool, quiet in its idleness and complete in itself, but without potential. The remote trellis keeps up its work -- in the system of guides sometimes the fruit is in omission, the elusion of symmetry. -- Zosia Rose Wiatr, Portland Zosia Rose Wiatr is a graduate of Evergreen State College. She is the founder of Boisson/Artiste, an online column dedicated to interviews with fine artists who also work in coffee or tend bar. Wiatr reads at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Waypost, 3120 N. Williams Ave., as part of the Spare Room Reading Series. Brandon Brown and Alli Warren also will read; a $5 donation is suggested. Submissions to the Poetry column may be emailed to poetry@oregonian.com or addressed to Poetry, The Oregonian, 1320 S.W. Broadway, Portland, OR 97201. Please include a self-addressed stamped envelope and/or full contact information (email address, phone number and postal address). If your work is selected for the column, you will be contacted. All poems are