Love Alone

Michael Peach

At ages three and eight
How well my daughters see
What I’ve relearned of late:
That love alone can free.

Jerusalem
3 May 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