Deborah Bacharach
Melania Considers Herself as Potiphar’s Wife
My husband bought Joseph.
Yahweh was with Joseph, ergo,
by the transitive property,
my husband bought God.
He also thinks he bought
beauty, fidelity, and mastery
in a ten for one sale.
My husband is a great believer
in buying power.
He thinks he’s bought desire.
In his vast and, now so zealously
set up, storehouse he thinks
he has a lockbox chockful of desire.
Deborah Bacharach is the author of After I Stop Lying (Cherry Grove Collections, 2015). Her work has appeared in Typishly, The Moth, Pembroke Magazine, and The Antigonish Review among many others. Her work has also appeared in Jump Start: A Northwest Renaissance Anthology (Steel Toe Books, 2009), edited by Lonny Kaneko, Pat Curran, and Susan Landgraf; A Fierce Brightness: Twenty-Five Years of Women’s Poetry (Calyx Books, 2002), edited by Margarita Donnelly, Beverly McFarland, Micki Reaman, and Carole Simmons Oles; and Sex and Single Girls: Women Write on Sexuality (Seal Press, 2000), edited by Lee Damsky. She is a writing professor, tutor and editor in Seattle. Find out more about her at DeborahBacharach.com.
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