Babel Dissidents

Michael Peach

Through insight, gained by humble contrite prayer
Combined with life-enriched imagination,
We’ll bring to light those truths so long obscured.

Jerusalem
27 February 1996

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