Metaphor (2)

Michael Peach

As evidenced by history,
The only way to paint the core
Of life, which is a mystery,
Is through the art of metaphor.

Jerusalem
23 April 1999

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