Alexis Brandon

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“Cinder Rhythm” by Alexis Brandon

Submitted to Contest #166

I love it. The scrape, scrape, scrape, scraaape of the metal pressing along the cinder. The plink, plink, plop of mortar from the trowel. I know what to do, plop, scraaape, pick up, place, plonk, scraaape away the mortar which seeps out from the pressure. My fingers feel like sediment, calloused from handling the cement. Sturdy, stuck, hard, callous.  --------- Sally is dressed in a floral pinafore; the same one every day. The same look every day. She offers me a roll; I take and hmmm like every other day. I hear the plink...

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