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Christology
What if he were all of these, this Jesus?
Come and come again and come again?
What if he were holy through the ages
Given and known to women and to men
By foreign names and strange, forgotten faces?
What if he were shepherd under guise,
The sleek and subtle mover of the worlds?
And moved among the worlds in our round world
In weird habiliments and forms unproud,
The gift and giver of the flaming word:
The gatherer and grower of the good,
To brood and barrow, fold and farrow,
Mead and meadow, fallow field and fen;
To cote and cradle, creed and fable
Giv’n and giv’n again and giv’n again?
Jonathon Penny is a poet, a scholar, a husband, a father, a cruncher of data, and, in relative poverty of spirit and blindness of mind, as much a disciple as he can manage. He has been published in Tyler Chadwick’s Fire in the Pasture, Dialogue, Victorian Violet Press, Mormon Midrashim, Sunstone, Everyday Mormon Writer, Gangway Magazine, Lowly Seraphim, and at Wilderness Interface Zone. He has several chapbooks in development, and will soon be publishing literary prose and poetry for children and youths of Percival P. Pennywhistle, PhD, and other fortunate souls under Pease Porridge Press.