– ruff – by PD Lyons w/photo

i knew a girl afraid of the wind

it would cause her to hide in the basement

eventually after she moved

to an apartment of her own in the west end

there was no basement

she could only hide in the only place without windows

with the minimum amount of intruding sounds

the bath room.

she had the position of bank manager in a local branch

one of those modern type open plan offices large panes of window walls.

sometimes when on occasion I’d have business at that particular branch

we would talk then smoke a cigarette 

in the complete silence of tobacco smoke we’d forget where we were together.