Do you like sea oranges, querida?The ones that yellow the blue. In the wavesof experience, they pulsate like a university.When a storm stares at us throughsky leaves, I hide inside your autumn.Look at these bubble couples driftingtowards the end of imagination—will we foam like that when the ordinaryordains itself? Or will we do what we were taughtand shield a stop-rot thought?Where are you now that you are youngerthan your children and I older than my memory?Are you an abandoned city or a dreamt-up one?I have sent you an orange seed in a bottlethat I dispatched down the veins of the impossible.
Sea Oranges
Tony Kitt
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“Sea Oranges” from Endurable Infinity by Tony Kitt © 2022. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Used by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press
Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland and in Calabria, Italy. He has a background in biology, Celtic studies, and classical music, and has worked as a researcher, a journalist, a music critic, and a creative writing tutor. His poetry collection entitled Endurable Infinity has been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, in the Pitt Series, in 2022. His poetry chapbook entitled The Magic Phlute has been brought out by SurVision Books (Dublin, Ireland) in 2019. His new collection entitled Sky Sailing is due from Salmon Poetry (Ireland) in early spring 2025, He edited the Contemporary Tangential Surrealist Poetry anthology (SurVision Books, 2023) and the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022), and was the winner of the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.
"Tony Kitt’s Endurable Infinity is a pyrotechnic display of delirious volcanic eruptions that illuminate the surreal underbelly of words. His dazzling bursts of imagery take us from the outside looking in to the inside looking out in the way ‘A magician pulls you from a hat.’ Kitt’s sharp, satirical juxtapositions grow eyes on trees, signaling to us like ‘dollar-sign smoke rings from Magritte’s pipe.’ The brilliant barbs of insight buried in these quick lines pay impressive dividends upon a close reading."
—Charles Borkhuis
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