To South American Protestant Converts

Michael Peach

Your faith was spawned, naïve amigos,
By folk with blind, distorted egos,
Who literalize symbolic tracts
And take prophetic tropes for facts.

Jerusalem
14 October 1999

Though wholeness is indeed my priority And the sensing function

My body now, alas, is paying the price, Together with

Due not least to constant U.S. vetoes Of U.N. resolutions

The streets near the park In Ramat Gan, Traffic-clogged and

Israel’s soul is all but lost. For the most vocal

Were he alive today, The holistic Qohelet, Or Ecclesiastes, Would