He Who Knows (2)

Michael Peach

He who knows God dwells within
Covets not his neighbour’s land,
Nor needs to walk in space.

Jerusalem
3 December 1995

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

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