EGYPTIAN BLACK CAT GODDESS
CHRIST HEAD, HINTON ST MARY
LACHISH JUGGERNAUT
IMPERIAL JADE
SUTTON HOO
PORTLAND VASE
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CHRIST HEAD, HINTON ST MARY
A new imperium is signified
by this divine caesar, tesserated
rather than minted. This Chi-rho
underwrites a roundel likeness
of a transitional Christ, still Roman,
very icon of conquest and all that is
spoiled in his triumph through hellgates
downside of Dis as in Londinium.
These are not haloed antlers
growing from his head like a Celt’s helm
nor are they a just a pomegranate border
to an utterable sacred monogram
of his anointment muttered on earth
as it is in heaven, by divines tendering
first liturgies in tiles as in fur stoles
and eucharists of barbarous stale ales.
Rather if this is an earliest icon
of a new god in an old world,
is Britain a terminus of things Roman
or evangelion of things to come?
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