Geoffrey Remembered 2022.

The girls passed by the window

of the coffee shop

as Geoffrey sat

sipping coffee

and snibbling

a buttered scone.

One girl walked slowly

as if she had eternity

to reach her destination.

She reminded him

of the girl in Hungary

back in the day

who spoke of defecting

to the West,

but then didn't show

where they had said,

and he assumed

she, like the rest,

had changed her mind

or was dead.

He watched

until she passed the window

of the coffee shop

and out of sight.

He sipped and kept

these images to himself

like a tainted wealth.