Metaphor (2)

Michael Peach

As evidenced by history,
The only way to paint the core
Of life, which is a mystery,
Is through the art of metaphor.

Jerusalem
23 April 1999

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