The Self (1)

Michael Peach

For the world’s sake, may those who deny God
At least accept that deep in their own mind
Is a higher self which seeks the ego’s love.

Jerusalem
21 October 1997

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