Reciprocity

Yasmin Meghdadi, 2T8 WB

I think

I fell in love

with you

that night.

Do you remember?

Please tell me

I didn’t make it

all up in my head.

We were lying

on my bed,

our bodies tangled

together,

my head cradled

in your arms,

your fingers tracing

constellations

on the curves

on my side.

I think I fell in

love with you then

as we talked

about dead Russian poets

and facial free flaps.

I fell in love with you,

but I know you didn’t.