Jerusalem (6)

Michael Peach

In that she reflects
Like no other place
The spiritual state of Man,
She is indeed the central point
And battleground
Of those who cannot wait.

Jerusalem
3 November 1995

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

If the complex causes of the catalytic Sado-masochistic syndrome Of

Let’s be straight. Although you deny it, In practice you’ve