God (3)

Michael Peach

In truth I cannot claim to know
If love and wholeness are Divine,
But all life’s greatest lessons show
One cannot better God define.

Jerusalem
24 November 1997

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