Inner Woman Volume 2

Caught in a time warp

A village, a museum

a living breathing

history lesson

Caught over a hundred

years in the past

the boardwalk

wooden pallets

strung end on end

wandering

from bakery

to hotel

to general store

to the mansion

school house

ten pew church

each joined to the

next by the spidery web

of narrow pine boards

ten feet wide

Floor length skirts

catch on splintered spikes

bare feet calloused from

summer wear

walking sticks

parasol points

the boardwalk

does not care

staff or visitor

together or apart

until it ends

unspoken boundary

between town

and country

explore an old mine

the railroad turntable turned by

a team of draft horses

the theater across

a grand green lawn

the old fort on the cliff

and dazed

return to the boardwalk

leading to the gate

package of sour dough bread

fresh baked

hard candy sticky in paper bags

to face

the towers of city center

soaring on the horizon

the end of the boardwalk

and dreams of a simpler time