hutt 1.3
  hutt - soho, hong kong
 
 
Michael Farrell is the Australia editor of slope. He has poems in The Best Australian Poetry 2003 (UQP) and The Best Australian Poems 2003 (Black Inc), as well as in (or soon in) Boston Review, Denver Quarterly, Fence and Verse. His recent book is ode ode (Salt Publishing). He lives in Melbourne.

 

 
   
michael farrell - my skeleton

     than matey knowing more than the romance
of you waiting for history to
happen
            of witches side by side in indian file  the
structures make for weirdness
  which infuses the
structures in the unlived truth grasses by reckoning or
against
      wreckeries accrue schizophrenia   my sympathies press through the
skin
    feeling harder than matey     they all
call     a  t  o   nce exc    ept t   he o ne t here                 a      re
  plenty of fuels varieties of angst waiting
for history to
happen overturn theres a
      small white      quietness
allows memories to arise beyond
the trees an
    abductor par excellence the  pyre each landscape its
own language unreadable
    from one generation to                  narrow as buffalo hope come here see the   box
   with a boy inside quietness allows memories to
arise  turn masses are said &
 lies born    a miracle but dwell perhaps on martyrs versions of thinking    the relief
      desperation & deja vu doesnt it make the wrong       a
trail of witches side by
    side in indian     all swept away except the one inhabiting the past intention
  anyone     under pressure false        birds
grist to the pyre each landscape its
        own language unreadable the next figures regenerate by reckoning or
against
              broad as buffaloes narrow as buffalo hope         blue candle my sympathies
  press through the thing said
enunciated then they all call at once except the
one
   there are plenty of fuels varieties of
angst waiting for    rest awhile work
is imaginary
     citadels are all swept
away except the one       realities mute the unlived truth
    grasses birds    could be just beyond the trees
an abductor