God (1)

Michael Peach

I don’t presume
To know
God’s true Self.
Yet to assume
Him lesser than man’s
Very best,
Which poets call
Love,
Is sheer spite.

Jerusalem
13 May 1992

Thank God I could a kindred spirit meet, When stalked

If I again could walk, For peace I’d use my

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