The Prophet (2)

Michael Peach

Dictator not he,
But midwife and nurse
To the Word that is born
Through his deeds or verse.

Jerusalem
15 March 2021

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