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