The Wife with a Double Life: A Memoir
Marriage brought me an expansive love out of a Russian novel. Monogamy, the first stage in our romantic cycle, gave way to a “tolerant marriage.” In the seventies love was in the air along with pot fumes at parties apt to start one day and end whenever. Our sexual horizons expanded along with our consciousness. Some years later a m énage à trois evolved that incorporated Letha, our significant other, whom we met in Paris.
Barbara Foster on m énage à trois.
Two Poems
“It is my opinion that your nose could do well in many situations.”
“I could not agree more, it seems very unique.”
“Almost Egyptian.”
“From the side, that is.”
“Should not the very invocation of Egyptian denote a profile?”
“One never knows.”
“Yes. I enjoy, anyhow, the way that it slopes down from the top, only to bend and curve as it comes to the tip, which is somewhere between sharp and bulbous. Not too much of either.”
“By the standards of the everyday nose, it could be considered long, but by no means intrusive.”
“No means.”
By Jake Severn.