Kai Ihns

Plants as of there are chairs
CLOUD CLOUD CONFETTI TRUMPET
Lucky ones born in the form of the hour
Exactly at ease, exactly surprised
A disposition being what remained of its science
PURE PURPOSE
Newly minted little stars
As of desperate information
HER DOG ATTACKED BIT DANICA
That’s
WHY SHE DIDN’T COME
A DOG YOU DON”T KNOW
NERVOUS
SITHENS IN A NET
Ok having the bad hot knees
A bumpy happy face
Feeling of glossiness? No.
Incarnated
Moon hat
“Listening muscular system”
Tall binomial forest of Charlotte
Slamming around its materials



Other voices include Lindsay
HOD
Put my face in the breathing wind
The sun burnt does appear there in the sting
She that me loveth to learn and suffer
Early bib, wet world face
Peal ariser diademic
True or fake
“Meaningless hells”

GRAB THAT MAN”S PHONE AND RUN FROM ROOM
STEP INTO BUS THAT BUS NOW
STICK FACE INTO COUGH
LEAN INTO DIRT REALLY SCREAM
COLLAPSE ON EVACUATED QUESTIONS
HIT IN FRONT OF ME CHAIR BACK
TELL FAMOUS AUTHOR SHUT UP
STEP ON VALUABLE DELICATE PAPER ON GROUND WHERE IT SHOULD NOT BE
SAY IT DOES NOT HAVE TO BE A SITE OF POWER
REFUSE ANY AUTHORIZING NOT DO IT
UNFAMILIAR TO ME
DID YOU GET TO THE PHYSICS THEORY
IS IT AN ACTIVE METAPHOR SLAP YOU
NO
STEP BASED ON SOMETHING OUT OF DATE
BUT IT WAS THERE!
NOT USE ANY APPROPRIATE SIDING
BANG FACE ON WALL
EVERYONE IS REALLY CAPTIVATED

            Faith accepts a disturbance
            In the part-whole apparency
            Mournful-resolute music
            At Banana Republic
It wasn’t pain but it was somewhere
            Lightly illuminated
            Sex of Formation
            The bird going on its tiny legs
            Forth


                                    I am so afraid that I still love you for reasons
                                    Where you are never quite appearing
                                    BLUE IS GREEN
                                    Which river it entirely flows


                                    SAINT JANUARY SAINT GLAZE
                                    RAINING AND DOUSING
                                    OVERHEAD VERMICULATE COMBO
                                    SOME MIND IS EXPLORING AS A NAKED
                                    BLUR
                                    NEW MUSKRAT
                                    Ah, rapturously….


                To believe that insistence can lead you beyond
                An old idea, maybe true
                Perhaps precisely what to do with
                Something other than living


                Interminable roasted noise
                Drinking water from all over
                Dinging and Screaming


                                    The nervous man too close to me, I felt
                                    More ease
                                    When i found him beautiful


                                                Illusion patiently violated by reference
                                                Weather gentle and not horrible

Unbelievable falling of those leaves at that time

                                                The chemical red in the west beneath Clouds
                                                Mute land beneath that
                                                The vague religious eyes of yours
                                                The mutest land
                                                Written over or beneath the word of them
                                                “Having no overriding conception, continually
                                                Resisting such, which itself creates [them]”

Kai Ihns is the author of sundaey (Propeller Books, 2020), and Of (The Elephants, 2024). She lives and works in Chicago.