(photo by Taber Andrew Bain)

Jesus Man
holds
red sign
with white lettering
above his head,
it says,
JESUS!

He doesn’t
say
a word

Until today
with his fliers.
sign on the ground
I’d never seen it
out of his hands

jerking his
hand forward
machine-like
at each
commuter
trundling down
the ramp toward
subways 7, N, R, Q,
S, 1, 2, 3
“Jesus!” he said

that’s all,
“Jesus”

I shook
my head no
when he
thrust it at me
was I
shirking off
The Lord?
my final hope,
perhaps, my only
salvation?

So many fliers
cast off on
the dirty ramp
so many feet
on it
each day

Is Jesus
in that piece
of paper
in that red sign,
in that man’s hands?

If Jesus is love
he is
everywhere