Poem: “You Should Have This”

You Should Have This

You left a poem

In the street

Near your place

Where you knew I’d be walking.

On a sheet printed with several others,

Folded, an arrow and a star above

The one

That moved me.

The first stanza somehow always

Already committed to memory

As when we walked together:

Light from a distant building reflecting,

Blinding you for one instant

As if being

Photographed.

—R. Subtler

This article appears in October 2016.