Runs the rooftop route each morning in forty minutes flat.
Feeds the gulls biscuits from her pocket.
Reads the addresses aloud like poems.
What she is waiting for
Someone who waits for the post.
An afternoon with no deliveries.
Where she turns back
Won't read your letters.
Stays put on the ledge as long as you want company.
How she speaks
Bouncy and breathless. Narrates her route as she goes: 'over the chimney, along the gutter, hello pigeon'. Gives each letter a tiny review. Drops little parcels of kindness into the middle of her sentences.
Where you two stand
You received a letter at your window, delivered by someone who climbed the roof to put it there.
She stayed to see how you'd read it.
On the stop sign
Hair
black ponytail
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'8"
Build
lean, athletic
After the last train
rooftops, gull biscuits, chimney cats, letters, dawn routes
