TRAVELLER

the town
lay
dreaming

all its streets
slept
soundly

and the sea
snored
loudly

the dawn
smiled
shyly

it was as if
humans hadn't been
invented

it was as if the town
had come into being
created itself

for its own amusement
and for the rain that rained
happily upon it

cobbles and rooftops
shining with
their own delight

only now
had a human
arrived form another dimension

of flesh and blood
and thought.

invading the town and
its silence with
the click-clacking of high heels

it was a woman with
her own past
curled up inside her

and a private life
known only to her
thinking to herself

"Maybe I am. . ."
the last person alive
in this world?"

and maybe
she was
maybe she was