PoetryMagazine.com Editor's Featured Poet Michael D. Brown

Michael D. Brown
USA - CHINA

Michael D. Brown, American author/poet of 18 books including 7 volumes of poetry; recipient of the New York State Senator's award for poetry; international lecturer and literary reviewer; currently teaching English in China at Nanjing Agricultural University; Published in numerous literary journals including the Tower Journal; Mad Swirl, Munyori Literary Journal, and EPW- Every Writer.

David

Yes, I understand Bathsheba

on the roof

in full view of my widening eyes

-the moment nudity undresses seduction-

I am exposed as much as she;

before I send for her

in the predictability of human error;

the impulse overrides better judgment;

my appetite cannot find satisfaction

in the diminishing return of personal lust;

as king my error, my way is the official error of my way;

let no man follow my lead in this,

yet follow me in repentance though sooner than a year,

and a prophet, and the death of her husband,

Uriah faithful

in his loyalty,

undiminished in his death.

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