SurVision Magazine
An
international online magazine that
publishes Surrealist poetry
in English.
Issue Five
TONY KITT
Reacaire
Somewhere
in the corner of language...
—Julie Flanders
—Julie Flanders
The scent of unread fields... Eternity
is hard of hearing.
Trash barges of an ideology
earth up our ears.
Our allegiances survive as hearts.
Brown ice of cedars. Triangulation.
What's the lo-call number
for the nearest time stretch?
We live the daily funeral,
the panic of atoms. Language
has many corners
sprinkled with birds' early light.
Your snow perfume, the dead warmth
of your body... A sick man
with his sack of stories
under the round book of the moon.
Reacaire: reciter of poems (Irish Gaelic)
Calabria (1)
Among ruins, you are whole
even if your geometry is slightly porous
Some minds carry knotted ideas, a few
abuse them religiously
Somebody
approached me one monastic morning
somebody with heavy eyelids and a tail
I think his name was telegraph
I hid in multi-story egocentric presentism
Time is a roofless edifice
it calculates in calabrese
while you tarantella
from reasons to consequences
Cats carry a sky leg
to divide it
between their shadows
Having committed himself
to a coast-long punishment
Herodotus caresses history
the way man pets his poems
Calabria (2)
Tomorrow tomorrow tomorrow
what will you say to me
in your magnetic Faraday voice?
Somebody is reading us
at this very moment
somebody's walking across
the back catalogue of time errors
The past is a fubsy mother
the future a negligent nurse
House walls disclose
the bibliography of winters
to the red belligerence of this afternoon
There are colours in every goblet
two silhouettes kiss
from east to west
You can sun your consciousness
on the grinding sand
day in and day out
Tony Kitt is from Dublin, Ireland. His poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, The North, The Prague Revue, Plume, Stride, Otoliths, The American Journal of Poetry, Shot Glass Journal, etc. His chapbook entitled The Magic Phlute was published by SurVision Books in 2019.
