Rehearsing the Rose

‘In fact, our code is a sort of evolutionary history book.’ Transcript, Newsnight, BBC TV


Rehearsing the Rose

All the mornings of the world
have dawned to write this rose,

ember of summer burning yet -
crying silver in her bed of earth.

In this polished morning
of motherness and garden,

love and light still evolving -
in the thousand million years

of my cultured heart:
the beating red rose.