I'm with Xoic and think "She had climbed over the railing" would work - the fact that she has done this would be obvious to your MC, considering...
I changed pen name recently, it wasn't working for me. I'd sold perhaps a dozen short stories to anthologies and magazines, and wanted to leave...
To answer the question of why you seem to be publishing more poetry than short stories, here's my two cents, in simple (perhaps over-simple)...
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