NAPOWRIMO #6:JESUS CHRIST GOES NUCLEAR #4

For 2011's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is attempting to write thirty poems in thirty days without the help of writing prompts from other websites.

Many of these are still in some sort of draft stage, but that is the nature of the Work Table.

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JESUS CHRIST GOES NUCLEAR 4

For a brief moment
Jesus the Christ is electromagnetic pulse

and the heat of seven thousand suns;

in the wake of his Word:

the Temple courtyard littered
with overturned tables and chairs

coins melted into pools of bronze and silver

the Big Board dimmed and dead

the NASDAQ ticker silenced;

the traders stand in the midst
of slips of blank paper and feathers

the Roman authorities keep their distance
as they quorum and calculate

“Herod will need to act
and if not the puppet king

then the prefect of the State”

with his phalanxes and standards
that Jesus pushes aside

as he walks back into the streets of Jerusalem.

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