“The Messiah”

Michael Peach

If "The Messiah" comes to Israel,
He’ll be not Christ nor any other man
But Holy Spirit borne by mind and Soul
Of every individuated Jew.

Jerusalem
8 March 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