the knight who is not his horse
blank as a paper
pocket of winter
a suite of poems called “the administrator”
the beautiful blank face of the Heat battery
sheet face, we love it
Keeping it up, keeping up, keeping it up
the face
cranked, diagrammatic, succinct
readily lovable
looking up, seeing nothing
Taking pictures of the sky is what they did
before they died, the hikers
Someone would see the flash
Leah says, perhaps they were hoping

Kai Ihns 

is a poet and filmmaker based in Chicago, where she works as a Humanities Teaching Fellow at UChicago.
A former editor at Chicago Review, she’s the author of two books of poetry, most recently Of (The Elephants, 2024).