Gunter began to talk about Gwen.
(In Sid's gallery,
there is a video of randomly recurring footage
of a woman sitting on a bench outside of a cabin
with mountains in the distance.)
I was about to say: "I just saw her in the courtyard,"
but he had left abruptly.
I saw him at the beer table, surveying the varieties of beer
as if in a museum exhibition
where every precious object was of interest.