SurVision Magazine
An
international online magazine that
publishes Surrealist poetry
in English.
Issue Thirteen
Tony Kitt
Nudity Outlawed
Deserters arrive unclothed. At the gates of the City of Heaven they take off their religion, their education, and bask in the sunshine of non-definity. They temporarily wear their sex but then abandon it to a winter age. They are too afraid to unswallow their names or to drink usefulness.
The authorities outlaw nudity, so they can catch the former soldiers of the army of light, but the idea of spiritual nakedness is too attractive to all. The surrounding woods are full of disrobed walkers whispering the Robin Hood prayer for invisibility and greyness.
Entanglement
The library of sand is spent. The beaches are teeming with topless words; every lawn is dusted with sustenance. Somebody dives towards a friend and then resurfaces on the other side of The Decline of the West.
Randomness is emptiness; any Facebook cat will tell us that. Crowds want to stand out from the crowd. We can swim across absurdity if we use Godo's algorithm.
Prestige is a dove at the height of splendour; mirrors depreciatemy each sparkling preview. If we put our abilities together while we drift apart in our papier-mache beds, what will we get if not a Bluetooth connection, a moment of "damn near"?
The Perfection of Man
Blue cucumbers pause at turnpikes. They can't waltz any farther; they can only yodel their discontent. "I can rewrite your life", a child professor winks and begins to google-translate it into the dollar-sign lingo. Can't we use the best biographies to create a proper life?
Somebody tunes his looking glass to see the wings of fame. Somebody pleads, "Health, please don't go. You are holding all the charts here." A coffin squirrel crosses the lawn. The guru, in his mid-turtles, comes with crutches for all.
Here's a voice message from the local roundabout: "Perfidio. Succeedio." Oh, the tongue of the slip! Blue cucumbers pause at turnpikes. And it all begins again...
Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland. His poetry collection entitled Endurable Infinity has been published by the University of Pittsburgh Press, in the Pitt series, in 2022. A collection of his early poems, Sky Sailing, is due from Salmon Poetry, Ireland, in 2024. His chapbook, The Magic Phlute, was published by SurVision Books in 2019, and another chapbook, Further Through Time, by Origami Poems Project in 2022. His poems appear in multiple magazines and anthologies. He edited the anthology of Ukrainian poetry about the war in English translation entitled Invasion (SurVision Books, 2022).
