While the World Burns

Michael Peach

Just as the complete man
Is a true microcosm,
So thinks he globally,
While acting locally.
The opposite, in fact,
To George W. Bush.

Jerusalem
3 November 2006

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