ANGLO-MONGRELS AND 
THE ROSE 
ENGLISH ROSE 
CONTINUED 
E ARLY English everlasting 
quadrate Rose 
paradox—Imperial 
trimmed with some travestied flesh 
tinted with bloodless duties dewed 
with Lipton’s teas 
and grimed with crack-packed 
herd-housing 
petalling 
the prim gilt 
penetralia 
of a lustre scioned 
core-crown; 
Rose of arrested impulses 
self pruned 
of the primordial attributes 
- A tepid heart inhibiting 
with tactful terrorism 
the (Blossom) Populous 
to mystic incest with its ancestry 
establishing 
by the divine right of self assertion 
the post-conceptional 
virginity of Nature 
Wiping 
it’s pink paralysis 
across the dawn of reason 
A World-blush 
glowing from 
a never-setting-sun