Negative Capability

Michael Peach

John Keats’ "negative capability",
Though coined for the worship of beauty, better applies
To faith in a God one can scarcely begin to fathom.

Jerusalem
23 December 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