Poet’s Corner: Jonah
A chance to read more from last week’s featured poet. Have a look at his other poems, Jonah on the Shore and In the Shower
(Following God’s decision to save the people of Nineveh)
O— do not save them—
Their shame is loveless-- it is
Only so you will spare them.
It grows like this gourd,
Swelling with a tasteless pulp
And dies after a day
while sack-cloth sores sink
beneath a wafer thickness
of perfect skin.
Be vengeful— they will only sin
again. I never ran twice…
But pity me: the one whose anger
has digested their bones.
I would my body were splinters,
scourged by this bloodshot wind,
That I would burst to dust
with the force of the act saved
for such a city.
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