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Rated: E · Poetry · Other · #1460399
Ordinary Things Contest FIRST PLACE!
Contest Prompt: Describe a hot sidewalk without using the words Hot Sidewalk.



A Summer Plea

painful jumping steps
my soles beg for cool mercies
fire in the cement



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