The Campaign for Peace in Our Time
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The Campaign for Peace in Our Time Author(s): Jon Anderson Source: The Iowa Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1970), p. 26 Published by: University of Iowa Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157532 . Accessed: 16/06/2014 07:55 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . University of Iowa is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Iowa Review. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 91.229.248.154 on Mon, 16 Jun 2014 07:55:34 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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The Campaign for Peace in Our TimeAuthor(s): Jon AndersonSource: The Iowa Review, Vol. 1, No. 1 (Winter, 1970), p. 26Published by: University of IowaStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/20157532 .
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THE CAMPAIGN FOR
PEACE IN OUR TIME
Once in an adolescent sweat
we planned all night to be righteous; to be never without poverty and always unreasonably gentle (how could they forgive us?) like fathers, to our wives.
The campaign for peace in our time
distracts, like the coffee talk of saints.
Compassion is a kind of whip I don't use well?but if I were ardent,
walking into the fields
or over the snow with a step less social, then I could walk forever ...
The saint flagellates himself; it seems
to be another man. Not pain, but the aesthetic of pain is learned.
He knows there is no reward for being hurt.
Slowly he strips his skin.
What a beautiful mistake!
You, or I, the poor men?we who are
neither gentle nor killers in a good cause
did we find that vacant, flayed skin
and mistake it for a coat?
We are terrified, we are pleased to wear it, into the streets
and at last to our journals and beds.
From that coat of pain a certain voice which is half ours
speaks openly, and entertains our lives.
But the campaign for living with ourselves
which was a saint who became free
is moving swiftly now into the fields,
gliding over the snow?
a heart of great lightness, grown
altogether practical and strange.
26 Jon Anderson
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