Writing in the Zeros

Absorbent
Power to assent
Please with a claim to assent
Fact of the generosity of the claim
Generosity
Which subsumes its coherence
Affinity of the zero
Every word
And every grouping...

GROUP SHAPE CHOP

FIX BANG ONE NO

TIME FLIES LIKE

AN ARROW PEOPLE LIKE A WATER

FEATURE

These colors are from life

Sort of(?)

The bouquet

Vase with Fleurse^†

the hunter can’t be understood,

just lived by us

because fear is important to us,

i feel that I know you

thinking and going in one direction and

thinking and going in one direction

Kai Ihns is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago, where she does things including edit The Year, a chapbook press. She's the author of several pamphlets, a dissertation called *Aspect Choreography*, and two books of poems, most recently Of (The Elephants, 2024).