The Mystic Paul

Michael Peach

O literalists, it’s time to see
The mystic Paulus holds the key:
Between the lines it seems he knew
In “Christ” the Self is brought to view.

Jerusalem
8 May 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