Time

Michael Peach

Be not cowed by bullying Time;
For he controls the mortal flesh,
While the Soul belongs to God.

Jerusalem
14 November 1995

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