Technocrats

Michael Peach

Divorced from earth, too smug to worship God,
Slick technocrats intent on cheating Death
Construct for all a dark, terrestrial hell.

Jerusalem
7 August 1994

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