Reversal

By Ed Higgins

This poem was originally published in Christian Feminism Today.

Jonah would laugh,

no doubt,

at this miracle

of reversal:

Jesus,

fish of God,

now swallowed

in human flesh:

God in us,

digested—

spirit calories

feeding hunger cells

with forgiveness,

until finally,

Jonah-like,

we, too, turn

toward Nineveh,

imperfect messengers

filled with

wine-blood love,

and bread-broken

Ed Higgins’s poems and short fiction have appeared in various print and online journals including Friends Journal, Commonweal, Christianity & Literature, Christian Century, Radix, and The Penwood Review, among others. Ed is Professor Emeritus, English Dept. and Writer-in-Residence at George Fox University, Newberg, Oregon. He is also Asst. Fiction Editor for Ireland-based Brilliant Flash Fiction.