Jonah Moves

By Ryan Keating

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While the prophet exile sleeps 
Deeply
Lying down
Below deck
In the dark
With the rhythm of the waves
He moves.
 
After pagan panic awakens
Insecurity 
Unreconciled 
Sacrificing himself
For strangers
In the storm
He moves.
 
In a burial at sea
Resigned to
Seaweed and salt
Behind pain
And potential
While nations drown
God moves.

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Ryan Keating is a writer, pastor, and winemaker on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus. His work can be found in publications such as Saint Katherine Review, Ekstasis Magazine, Amethyst Review, Macrina Magazine, Fathom, Dreich, Vocivia and Miras Dergi, where he is a regular contributor in English and Turkish.

Related work on Foreshadow:
The Sign of Jonah: Foreword (2022) (Editorial by Josh Seligman, January 2022)
Jonah and the King (Poetry by Matthew J. Andrews, March 2022) 

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