here

a glass box of broken limbs
face worn away
I can still ride this horse
glow at night
like red light on Egyptian blue
I was born to be luminescent
a stampede
here
forced down on one knee
held by my hair
that languid boy
cast a shadow even in relief
even in fragments
mouth open, nostrils flared
I am nomad, moon goddess, carbon smear
if wings sprouted from my face
I would not fly back  

KMA Sullivan’s poetry has been published or is forthcoming in Pearl, Potomac Review, Cream City Review, Gargoyle, >kill author, H_NGM_N, and elsewhere. She has been awarded residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in creative non-fiction and from Vermont Studio Center in poetry. She is the editor of Vinyl Poetry and the owner/publisher of YesYes Books.