Stardust

Michael Peach

Blessed be those who, during their brief phase
Of consciousness, understand that all they comprise
Is the creation and property of God.

Jerusalem
23 January 1996

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