Three Poems

by Jonathan Fletcher

What I Hear When I Read the List of Words at Risk of Removal Because of Trump’s Executive Order

Imago Dei

 The Gospel of John 1:14 (NIV)

images of Jesus gone viral

                        The Word became

A.I.

                         flesh and made

on screen

                         his dwelling

Jesus boxing Satan

among us

tall, six-packed, chiseled

We have seen his glory

a facial twin of Jared Leto

                        the glory of the one

likes in the thousands

                        and only Son

the click of a finger

                        who came from

a set of algorithms

the Father

not of this world

  full of

his exalted self

grace and truth

savior or influencer?

Photo of Jonathan Fletcher

BIO: Jonathan Fletcher holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Columbia University School of the Arts.  His work has been featured in numerous literary journals and magazines, and he has won or placed in various literary contests.  A Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and Best Microfiction nominee, he won Northwestern University Press’s Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize contest in 2023, for which his debut chapbook, This is My Body, was published in 2025.  Currently, he serves as a Zoeglossia Fellow and lives in San Antonio, Texas.