She Who Loves Her Father / Laura Madeline Wiseman

  dancing girl press, 2012 $7.00Laura Madeline Wiseman has a doctorate from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln where she teaches English. She is the author of several chapbooks including, Branding Girls (Finishing Line Press, 2011) and She who Loves Her Father (Dancing Girl Press, 2012). Her poetry has appeared in Margie, Feminist Studies, Poet Lore, Cream City Review, Pebble Lake Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, and elsewhere. Her prose has appeared in Arts & Letters, Spittoon, Blackbird, American Short Fiction, 13th Moon, and elsewhere. Her reviews have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Valparaiso Poetry Review, 42Opus, and elsewhere. Mummy Treatment It will be hard not to talk. No one will question you. Before silence, you spoke without pause to log your day. You will forget how to mix poison, where the amulets are kept, or that palms raised and facing you mean stop. Though you once rambled about this and that, after one week, your, What do we ha