What I Remember From the Day I Almost Died

What I Remember From the Day I Almost Died

Matthew J. Andrews

The way my fingers interlocked with yours / the gravity drawing them together to my neck / the
slow descent of your head down to me / the honeycomb sticky on your lips / the compression,
the suffocation / the nails digging deep into my own skin / the song lowered softly into my ear /
the scent of fruit ripened on your breath / you trapped under my crushing weight / the way your
hands opened like blossoms

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Matthew J. Andrews
Poet & Private Investigator

Matthew has been published in Sojourners, Funicular Magazine, Red Rock Review, The Dewdrop, and Amethyst Review, among others. He can be reached at matthewjandrews.com

Photography by Aron Yigin