Bio
Tony Kitt is from Dublin, Ireland. 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, The Café Review, The Fortnightly Review, Poetry Ireland Review, The North, Cyphers, Plume, Matter, 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).
Tony Kitt
The Magic Carpet
Who carjacked a carpet under the elysian
lanterns streaming reminiscent light?
Whose carpet still hasn't landed
in the fields of acceptation?
Whose instruction was dust,
sparkles of dust that made their light
seethe through words into the core
of significance?
Who rode the rain? Who weaved tiny
mind cobwebs, one light year after another,
to re-nerve his carpet in
the packyderm zone?
Whose carpet is steering towards
loud clouds, as oppressive
as the soil blanket over his ancestors'
unmarked graves?