Foyer (May)

Lobby has the allure of big city America. Cinemas are crowded with elaborate men and lippy women. Politicians fight in corners like it’s their hobby. The tremendous sounds are all human. Lobby and foyer are synonyms, but are they the same? Foyer is more European. We may linger there, waiting for a friend. Foyer waves like quiet fire. We find ourselves there sometime in May, say a Wednesday or Thursday, hearing whispers, needing to be somewhere else, publicly reading our private text messages, out of the weather. Vestibule never caught on. It’s a bit like anteroom, somewhere for inappropriate furniture.