’Tween the Mountains and the Sea

Michael Peach

Before he died, a wise man said these pregnant words to me:
Go cultivate a garden ’tween the mountains and the sea.

Jerusalem
4 September 2001

Though wholeness is indeed my priority And the sensing function

My body now, alas, is paying the price, Together with

Due not least to constant U.S. vetoes Of U.N. resolutions

The streets near the park In Ramat Gan, Traffic-clogged and

Israel’s soul is all but lost. For the most vocal

Were he alive today, The holistic Qohelet, Or Ecclesiastes, Would