A caterpillar speaks in sunsets
and rain clouds.
It wishes it had wings
to wave away the sand of its dunes.
A chrysalis perceives a sunbeam
as a red alarm striking inside the cell.
Its night is filled with tiredness
like a silicone jar.
A butterfly enjoys moist-winged
wind kisses.
It prefers the foam of love
to the fleeting eyes of anger.
A butterfly hates the moment of landing
into an assessed value of what it is
and what it has done
with its life.
Tony Kitt is from Dublin, Ireland. His three poetry collections are Endurable Infinity (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2022), The Magic Phlute (SurVision Books, Dublin, Ireland, 2019), and Sky Sailing (Salmon Poetry, Ireland, 2025; forthcoming. Recent poetry publications include The Cafe Review, The Fortnightly Review, Posit, and The Friday Poem. He edited the Contemporary Tangential Surrealist Poetry anthology (SurVision Books, 2023) and the anthology entitled Invasion: Ukrainian Poems about the War (SurVision Books, 2022).