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.