MICHAEL FARRELL

Michael Farrell was born in Bombala, New South Wales, Australia in 1965.
He published 3 books: ode ode (Salt, 2002); BREAK ME OUCH (3 Deep, 2006);
and a raiders guide (Giramondo, 2008). He has edited features for slope, Gutcult
and cordite, and is currently co-editing (with Jill Jones) an Australian lesbian
and gay poets anthology. He is a PhD student at Melbourne University.

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grooves

round &
in the army along the coast
everything cast to the hills
& recorded in other words
you could say theyd come home to lay
like characters
with hairy limbs
skip down the flank
in bug combat
competition brings
virgin athletes by
some conceal stones &
will receive the stick
say todays colours
interfere & risk
the residing beasts
redefine & feast
on the preceding
mark their inbreeding








now or nefertiti if a pun it must be the elvis
queen surprisingly unknown sensitive dress like pines
meditation on historical children in the river dedicated
to one god come hold the piglets commerce deck
hurt role of in the heart or of knowing succession
whats in casualties corn hottest thing sidewalks spectre
of male more expect language in dark threadbares of
kittens corridors hard cutoffs marginal surprisingly
unknown sensitive dress historical children in one god
come commerce deck hurt role of in the heart
hottest thing sidewalks spectre expect language in
dark threadbares idors hard cutoffs ertiti if a pun it
known sensitive dress on histori icated to one erce
deck hurt role of in the heart or of knowing
succession ualties corn hottest thing sidewalks uage in
dark threadbares of ors hard cutoffs marginal now or
ingly unknown sensitive dress historical children in
deck hurt role of in the heart or of knowing ies corn
hottest thing sidewalks spectre of male age in dark
threadbares of kittens corri al now or nefertiti if must
be the elvis queen surpri








the snow depardieu waiting for the petrol soft to
develop yellow fur like goodbye drinks negatives his
game had no patron or forgiveness or friend the water
clung & heaven concentrated in its wish the grass the
rodent in its jaws my shoulders that feeling piece of paper
melts flies take this man your father into the sea the
wood & gesture emotions that are a law instead of fenced
cute like a singing tram shaped like a diamond juice
running her wool further down he had to the rocks their
blood now answer yes ing for the petrol soft to develop
yellow fur no patron or forgiveness concentrated in its
wish the grass piece of paper melts flies take ons that are
a law in like a diamond juice running rocks their blood
now answer yes snow de soft to develop yellow fur had
no patron or forgiveness or friend the water clung &
heaven conce in its wish the grass feeling piece of paper
melts flies take wood & gesture emotions that are a law
instead of fenced cute like a singing tram juice running
her wool further down he now answer yes the snow
depardieu waiting for the petrol soft to develop yellow








outside almonds

it belongs there hard & red
as if to say im dewless
a rubber band
swept free of ceremony
make it heavy & only
a holiday of the brain
they look pink but theyre not & all day wrest
drive her to the back the sunlight blasting
taken up a shawl or cat in our arms
theres a hook in the skin somewhere or clay
ploughing to seed or lose always in the deep
cold as
blossom
fresh per
haps live
branches
in love
rain shapes
itself
the graves hard & red there
as if to say plastic grows
sunk & lost beginnings
to others but to us
their presence enough
it becomes background
before & again
not in words it says
the living must come first
its your origin look
only some see mirrors
some see
spirits
others
spaces




Poems here are taken from a raiders guide (published by Giramondo).

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