The Easter Magdalene

Michael Peach

(re John 20)

How apt that on this fateful day in spring
She thought the gardener was her Risen King!

Jerusalem
2 December 1998

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