[alone]

alone.
from outside
the mewling of a cat
provides company in the darkness

the last one was yesterday
the buzzing of the telephone interrupted her solitary sandwich
"Mary died
in her sleep. It was peaceful"
Alone
She cries into a pillow

ealier today she looked around her
quiet
still
three people joined her on the grass
the sun shone
she shivered

isolated

the last to go
slowly
steadily
she crept back to her house
to the waiting cat
the silence
alone.