KB is a Black queer genderless miracle. They are the author of the chapbook HOW TO IDENTIFY YOURSELF WITH A WOUND (Kallisto Gaia Press, 2022), winner of the 2020 Saguaro Poetry Prize. Follow them online at @earthtokb.
I will not die, I promise you this. Even if the bruise /
turns blue and creates a pretty palace on my skin, on the other side /
of that flesh wall I am becoming my own best man.