Adultery

 

A

Today for some reason I pulled the green sweat shirt 

with the gold letters, 

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, 

off the top shelf and wore it for the first time in a very long time. 

It was a little tight.  

I kept looking down at the lettering

and touching it to make a kinetic connection with it 

and 

maybe the past.  

I attended there several summers 

while getting my Masters degree. 

I was away three summers enjoying myself with my studies

missing my kids when

I thought for the first time, while touching the letter A for Alberta

that this was the time she continued her adultery 

that started in the Bahamas, continued through the marriage, 

so naturally it happened when I was away those three summers. 

It was a sunny day so I went inside and took off that sweat shirt

and slipped into something more comfortable.

m.r.