UNKNOWN RELIGIONS

I like red cars especially on a hot day
Born to dry
What was carpet promising, at that time?
The nineties at that time

ACIDIFIED UNITARD
THREE QUARTER YEAR
EARLY-BUDDING GENEROUS POISONOUS DOGWOOD
Woman Washroom
Well-Adjusted Fruit
Walking down stairs into the breast of a
great hill
Rising covered in grass without sharpness
Carping about it, no tree line cover
lineates its altitude experience
The ways what is said can stand
For something other than what
To mean
A conflicted arsenal of such tools or ways
A tool has its path built into it
Without visible opening
SLAB CRAPPIE
Your diamond face is clearly wet
Smooth to Its Task

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from THE BIRDS–published by Three Count Pour (Selva Oscura Press)

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Kai Ihns is the author of two books of poems, Of (The Elephants/Fonograf,
2024), and sundaey (Propeller Books, 2020). She’s also written a
dissertation on orientational prosody in contemporary experimental
poetry and film called Aspect Choreography, and numerous poetry
chapbooks/pamphlets, most recently THE BIRDS (part of Or set from Three
Count Pour, 2025), Sentiment (forthcoming from b l u s h, 2026), and
PORTUGAL SCENE (forthcoming from Topos Press, 2026). Other projects
include The Year, a chapbook press. She lives and works in Chicago.