You Forget

by Adam Jeffries Schwartz

The stranger is naked.

So are you.

You forget that you just met
(hands touched on the subway);
forget that you know
nothing about him
and will learn
even less.

You will leave nothing
behind
but a trace, an ache.

Or maybe that's
what started
the whole
thing?

You forget.

The Author

Adam Jeffries Schwartz is a writer and a traveler. He has stories in: Descant and Grimm Magazines, Petit Journal and in the anthology, Walking Higher. Online he pops up at many sites, including: Ghoti (Fish) Magazine, Melane, LitBits, Magazine Shiver, Caprice & Anacoenesis Literary Journal.