Prophetic Art (3)

Michael Peach

For each the way to God depends
Upon his nature, means and ends.
To me the Prophets most appeal,
Since they the truth through verse reveal.

Jerusalem
16 January 1994

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