Modern Fundamentalists

Michael Peach

Unversed in metaphoric truth
Our science-educated youth,
When fleeing to religious sects,
Are apt to literalize the texts.

Jerusalem
8 September 2006

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