Stan Sanvel Rubin
Amuse Bouche
Put your memories
on my tray.
Let me pass through
like someone anonymous
offering wine.
When I am gone
you will remember
the momentary taste,
the exquisite
complexity.
About the writer:
Stan Sanvel Rubin’s poems have appeared in such magazines as The Georgia Review, Kenyon Review, Virginia Quarterly Review, Poetry Northwest, Ascent, One, and others. His fourth full collection, There. Here., was published by Lost Horse Press in 2013. His third, Hidden Sequel (2006), won the Barrow Street Poetry Book Prize. He lives on the Olympic Peninsula of Washington state.
Image: Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. Lithograph by Louis Haghe (1806-1885) from an original by David Roberts (1796-1864). 1842. Public domain.
