Drawing by Judith Wolfe
Michael Johnson

Poem


      JESUS WALKS

      Jesus lives
      in a tent
      not a temple
      coated with blue
      velvet sugar
      He dances in freedom
      of His salvation
      with the night and all
      days bearing down with sun.
      He has billions of ears
      hanging from His head
      dangling by seashores
      listening to incoming prayers.
      Sometimes busy hours drive Him
      near crazy with buzzing sounds.
      He walks near desert bushes
      and hears wind tunnels
      pushed by pine stinging nettles.
      Here in His sacred voice
      a whisper and
      Pentecostal mind-
      confused by hints of
      Catholicism and prayers to Mary-
      He heals himself in sacred
      ponds tossing holy water
      over himself--
      touching nothing but
      humanity He recoils
      and finishes his desert
      walk somewhat alone.


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