2003 Compendium

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author bio:

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). His recent book is ode ode (Salt Publishing). He lives in Melbourne.



 
 
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4 poems
 
 

 

prefer nonstudent

with hair that flames & splits with hair that
&s always off the balcony &s always off the
leaving the lighter by the stove leaving the lig
never wondering if their heads out the window
or falling in love & dying at fortyfive or fall
a bright quiet smile every morning a brig
with bearable dishes to wash up with beara
no haloes or chimney affinities no haloes or
tempting gifts when theyre gone tempting gifts
from paris that taste much the same from p
making their study seem normal making the
& smelling like elderly gentlemen & asters

 

 

 

mr hardwork

more so get used to new silhouettes shifts
be more like remember other shifts chest
neighbours be swift & wear a daring chest hover
he neighbours with video cleaner hover status
losing he projects anxiety for sexual status gratification
daring losing if you include gratification conservative
though daring being ultimately conservative enough
theres though being heres not merely enough off
a theres a heavy dinner to walk off chat
& a ginger cats trapped in enforced chat safari
he & you thought we were on a safari bridges
so he loops round the trees like theyre bridges silhouettes

 

 

 

did know

groggy my body remembered the foggy beach me
& groggy the names come back to me that
we & the pancakes without eggs that fiends
into we turned into bread & soccer fiends pics
of into cricket friends hi nipper the pics in
the of the painted windows it was warm in waiting
for the water lying on the sand waiting teachers
a for an interview kids against teachers or
call a week later its choose to work or go
back call a great writer for lunch go seed
toast back to the beach after poppy seed overcast
my toast cake really will it be overcast beach

 

 

 

an candy

whos youre following someone with clothes & short hair friday
a whos fast & it helps him you suppose its friday unexpected
whose a holiday for some not for the unexpected wheel
barrow whose calendars secret & has stripped to the wheel a
garden barrow to who knows pave a driveway place a to
the garden its cool yet will warm up quick cross to the
chance the shade its not that kind of day with the bay
gets chance of dancing on the agenda even the bay a
few gets a miss today youll flex a little to box a the
form few books a glimpse is enough for a poem the only
be form must change to keep our interest & only indirect
youre be revealed when our gaze is inward indirect hair