Blue Peace

Michael Peach

Blessed are the friends
Of Moby-Dick:
For they shall save
The sunken Soul
Of Captain Ahab
And salvage
The Blue Planet.

Jerusalem
12 November 2017

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