read it

i am so ready to eat an egg
the film in its strip or ray
we were
dedicatedly
jamming into the
subject into
the glassssss

like a kitten we put it

finely cooked in the arpeggiator

we r true! we made it! ready!

princess diamond super fire
usurper, baby alabaster jar

Magdalene she enters gorgeous, her
emblem very fully in her my
mother
loves her
like a laboratory crystal, tandem
blazon, flame, cum, labile:

no step, squeeze pump
bathroom tile, dry dry creature
slith hiss sage
when i think about the wings of the airplane
i get so
calm

i can get you started
i permit then i spread
the leaves
are dead on the variegated
red begonia and
then they are dead on the floor

MORTALITY/HISS HISS SKATING

the cabbage broke apart into laws
coyly
but contained no coyness

what is added in this new rehearsal
plain reflex
well retrospect is whatever platitude that is
i have to tell you this
now i needed a place to put the space between events
i used a clock
please enable me to talk
green forms slowly fields
does this correspond, even roughly to you

no.

it is living like a live person and
huge living and in it
it moves under animate force, ice
smite like a precipice i permit you
you go on now, you do as you like

Kirsten Ihns is the author of sundaey (Propeller Books, 2020). A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is currently a Ph.D. student at UChicago. Poems appear in jubilat, Hyperallergic, Black Warrior Review, The Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She is from Atlanta, GA, and Pensacola, FL.