“Cast Your Bread”?

Michael Peach

Cast your bread on the water,
And what doesn’t return
Will be food for the fish.

Jerusalem
10 February 1998

The milk and cream of human kindness ease The bullish

Despite the ATVs and motorbikes That shake my fragile balance

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How ironic and poetically just That the blatant ethnic-cleansing And

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and