Aline Mello is a Brazilian writer and editor living in Atlanta. She is an Undocupoet fellow and her work has been published or upcoming in The Georgia Review, The New Republic, Quarterly West, Indiana Review, and elsewhere.
Over the song, for the first time in three days, we can’t hear the beeping of Q’s monitors. I slip my hands in his back pockets and rest my cheek on his neck. As we spin, medical wires wrap around us like seaweed.