I’m Almost Relieved to Have Found Myself in an Actual Accident
By Ra Ebrahim
Around the hairpin turn I felt
my life fall quite neatly off
the bone. There was nothing to be
done about it, one minute I was there and the next.
The chrome heap. The bloodied shine
of newly anointed metal, gleaming in the sunlight.
The shattered glass and the halo shot
through the windshield.
The ground now consecrated with the
gore of molars strewn about,
promising no more.
Everything scraped out.
At last,
what luck.
Ra Ebrahim is a freelance writer and poetry editor of the online literary magazine, The Candid Review. Their recent work can be found in Major 7th Magazine and Resurrection Mag, with forthcoming work in BusTalk Lit and Anti-Heroin Chic. Still somehow on Twitter/Instagram @projectiondept. They are based in Singapore.
Artwork Source: Fragment of “Molar” Bottle. Iran, 9th-10th Century. In the Public Domain.
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