Reverie
La femme Parisienne
was there too, again.
Her jaunty 'newsboy' cap,
flicking through a copy of Granta.
Sipping macchiato,
listening to Jane and Serge
'So à la mode, so preoccupied, so thin!'I stared at her reflection
in the café window
and straightened my hat.
© Justine Tennant 2004