Land of Plastic

Michael Peach

Land of milk in plastic packets,
Honey in plastic jars;
Prayer books in plastic jackets,
Credit in plastic stars.

Jerusalem
16 May 1992

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