Apocalyptists (1)

Michael Peach

Until such Christians comprehend
Apocalypse belongs within,
The world they’ll do their best to end
So timelessness can thence begin.

Jerusalem
12 January 1999

The milk and cream of human kindness ease The bullish

Despite the ATVs and motorbikes That shake my fragile balance

Like all the kindest men’s in history, Will’s anima was

In his sonnets Will’s narrator loves a manPlatonically; for he’s

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

Could anything ever persuade The fatalistic fundamentalists, Who literalize and