Across the table, the man in uniform
was silent
In the restaurant.
I heard the sound of men and women talking
at other tables.
"It was commissioned in October. October, 1308,
the year after the Templars were arrested,"
I said.

But, it wasn't until that very moment,
telling Gus the story,
that I saw that the date
when the painting was commissioned
was almost exactly a year from October 13, 1307,
the day when the Knights Templar were arrested.

[ Paths of Memory and Painting]
[when the foreground meets the background]