Green Sky

Author: Kirsten (Kai) Ihns

Publisher: slub press (2023)

There where the distance is, you are walking along the shore. The shore is wide, you see no border. At your feet the little iridescent wavelet does your life in different voices, yet when you stoop to listen closer you hear only the dulcet tones of . . . Alexa. The familiar empty voice ushers you further down, into the clear water—there, down in the grotto, inside our world again, a heavy Green Sky hangs over all you must call home. Kai Ihns’ poems bespeak a state somewhere so slightly drifting, midst the isthmus ‘tween a halcyon atemporality and the hours we must fulfill, that fall away—such peace as is allowed us, by the leaves, by the waves. . . .