slish
And other poems by Kirsten Ihns
slish go & do your lonely in the corner. do it all over the wall. baby yr a timeless dishes, you don’t mean to be pernicious. you’ve got such a good heart. baby you hurt so good for me. out the window it’s october. fair making the appeal of birds in description being one thing available as multiple animated bodies, small and vulnerable a mist, lightly extended. something something else may become, suddenly. proverb: if you promise someone something you should keep it: the last leaves are clinging like dry stars. wild dogs wear their old gentleness like a dirty garment they drag it along: let me take the world in my sharp teeth let me shake it til it dies. rose opulent//those moments//when you forget you can be seen//theatre plush// velvetine//metastatic voluble//daisy-cut//internecine//what the one i say i love dreams//is a poor future i. whose ruddy calculus imagines it all peopled with inorganic forms o the lioness approaches on her circuit she approaches orange vertical seal i say take a sudden thing, make it slow so you can look at it nicely and for every eyelash i wish i wish body would heal-- know not the thing, know rather what it angles towards: seeks to i am making myself a rosy arc fickle hollow full knowing like a tool knows as process shape the shape someone gave it told it to wait fragile magic animal takes out its din goes to sleep for a while. ii. i have been charged with the care of the horses, numerous, & vehicle if you want it to go it must be made insufficient unto itself or otherwise afraid iii. let it to say i am a behaving body just its confrères may choose their future rooms let me be introduced as a realized device free source of poor advice i just wanted to do a job as no rule not arising from a system necessity can stay i believe yes this i believe and very little else |
Kirsten Ihns is a Teaching-Writing Fellow and MFA candidate in poetry at the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Winner of the 2016 Black Warrior Review poetry prize, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Bennington Review, BOAAT, Black Warrior Review, The Offing, New Delta Review, POOL, and elsewhere. She is from Atlanta, Georgia.