Affair
by Laura Madeline Wiseman
After I had come and gone
you said you’d been too afraid
to be there in the rented room
perched atop a hill
wrapped like a door prize.
I know this love is old.
Me with a husband
and you two sons by the man
who phoned us at midnight.
I’m over it or beyond it, I am.
But I can’t help thinking how it was
to come and go to you freely
when we were both too afraid to stop.
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Laura Madeline Wiseman is working on her dissertation in
creative writing at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. Her
works have appeared in The Minnesota Review, The South
Loop Review, Georgetown Review, and other publications.
She is an empowerment4women editor.
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