Brave Old World

Michael Peach

We, the last generation of mortals
And Earth-restricted men, must find
Within the Self that eternal realm
Fallen angels seek in outer space.

Jerusalem
5 May 1996

Despite my declining Physical state, Increasing introspection And aversion to

To those who don’t believe in afterlife King Lear is

According to Ophelia’s lament, When Hamlet’s words have made her

A source of Hamlet’s melancholic state Is tension ‘tween his

Now that DeSantis has ceded, Haley, an evangelical convert, May

When Hamlet found the Ghost’s account was true, While viewing