The Friday Poem on 03/03/23

Funeral

People from different parts 
of one’s life 
don’t know each other.

They walk behind the coffin 
in silence,

each mourning 
a different person.

Tony Kitt lives in Dublin, Ireland. His poems have appeared in Oxford Poetry, Poetry Ireland Review, The North, Cyphers, The Honest Ulsterman, The American Journal of Poetry, Plume, and Matter, among others. His collection, Endurable Infinity, was published by Pittsburgh University Press, in the Pitt series, in 2022. A further collection, Sky Sailing, is due from Salmon Poetry in 2023. He has had two chapbooks published, The Magic Phlute (SurVision Books, 2019), and Further Through Time (Origami Poems Project, 2022). He edited Invasion, an anthology of Ukrainian poetry about the war in English translation (SurVision Books, 2022), and was the winner of the Maria Edgeworth Poetry Prize.