Each exit from the path was a risk

You never knew how people

 would react 

to a girl stealing to save her pointless life

Smoke whipped and curved from this chimney.

She imagined it was her house before she broke all the windows.

A single dash

a leap

and she could take

a neat rock through the window

able to warm herself just with the thought

what wonders and fears 

might await her 

on her next twirl.