Tony Kitt

Flame tigers float
across the moonlit mystery.

Be your greenest self,
be the star harvest.
Unzip your inner zoo.

We remember primordial light.
We remember nothing.
Lend us fireflies, so we avoid
ripples of time.

By the well, mud with the mind of a madman,
its sticky embrace.
Lava candles, beastly amulets,
the wish-book of wash.

Fir-tree antennas vibrate with Braille;
windows are pregnant
with other rooms.
Houses become whispers.

 

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TONY KITT is from Dublin, Ireland. He has been working as a creative writing tutor and a magazine editor. His poetry titles include Endurable Infinity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022) and The Magic Phlute (SurVision Books, Dublin, Ireland, 2019). A new collection, Sky Sailing, is forthcoming from Salmon Poetry, Ireland, in spring 2025. His poems appear in multiple magazines and anthologies, including Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry Daily, The North, Cyphers, The Cafe Review, Plume, Matter, Posit, The Fortnightly Review, Under the Radar, etc. He edited the Contemporary Tangential Surrealist Poetry anthology (SurVision Books, 2023) and the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022).