H Masud Taj
18 Questions for Embedded Botanists
01. Who entered the rosarium?
02. What did the rosette’s symmetry encode?
03. What did the unwinding spirals unravel?
04. What did the sepal’s vortices conceal?
05. What did the revolving petals reveal?
06. Why did the rose flee its centre?
07. Why did petals circumambulate?
08. Why did red not cease its flow?
09. What words did rosaries rehearse?
10. Whom did the falling beads betray?
11. What did the scattered roses relate?
12. Why did the convulsing rose collapse?
13. Who blamed the rose for its redness?
14. Why did the redness exceed the rose?
15. Who did separate form and fragrance?
16. Why did the roseate aroma not linger?
17. Who did away with the last bouquet?
18. When were you last seen in the rosarium?
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