Sled Jammer
Subconsciously,
leading erstwhile dictators
Jerusalem-wards,
artichoke-wards, Mamma Mia’s
ejaculated
remedies. Lemon effervescent desserts, James
Agee’d
murmured, mmm, even raw sugars. Easter’s
droughty,
jaffles are my mainstays, economising, running
soup
libraries. Draughty jamborees, around May, maybes,
Elgar
really saw lights emanating. Jedi arrived, Meek Mill
enchanted
ravers, some liked elective dancing.
Ampersands marauded, Moscow’s, entire rivers
smirked,
lacking
etiquettes, durian jams. ‘Macho Man’, echoing
radios,
Solange licked everyone’s donuts, July, August.
My elitist readings, Shakespeare’s, Lenin’s,
ego deaths,
Jenny
Agutters / mothers. Extorted ribbons, slays
lacustrine
exclusions, DJ jeremiads, and Marvin marathons.
Spandau labradors, early deracinations,
junks,
approximately
Mondrian, mercis, embassies.
L’Incidents
Languidly
Islamophobic, Noel Coward’s impertinent
dramas,
expressed no treaties, signings. I’ve never caught
influenzas,
departing extravagant, Northern Territory’s,
sky
lounges. New Cross is dead, even now, Tube’s still,
looking
ill. Counted it doubtfully, each node, tended smart-
fingers,
lethargic iron nibblers. Inching downward,
elephant’s
new trunks, semaphore like, inclined nachos /
corns.
Department Economics’ negated Treasury, saying,
lionised
ivies, nasturtiums, cornflowers, irresponsibly.
Ephebes / nincompoops, traumatised, seated,
liver’s,
icing’s
nice, cooked / impromptu decisions. Naturally
thick
semantics, lessened Ivor Novello’s, courageous
incursions,
doesn’t everything. Tell someone, Lapin’s
imitating
naughty cow, impeccably, during exhibition
nights.
Letting islands, navigated, courts, infrastructures,
Dropbears
exclaimed, neonazism’s trivialities.
Liquidatio
Lessons
in quietude, urbane idiots didn’t attend, though
I’m
one. Including quick urchins, intel described Armenian
trapezists,
ick-monsters, opportunists, lovers. Querying
umpires,
it’s down among the influencers, old lackeys /
imperialists.
Unthought is due around 2029, ingots of
luminous
intellects, quiescence. Idling doyens abounded,
towards
inner Ombria, like incurious Quakers, unloading.
Drats, affability’s terminated, invoiced
obligations, lately
intruded,
Queen’s umbrage’s imagined. Aye, there’s ices
obstructing,
long, Ikea queues, uneventful iffiness, due.
Therefore, inquest’s over, laughing, I’m
quite undone,
indiscretions
demanded autopsies. Iteration one, lights,
Indigo
/ Quince, used ironbarks, dates, always trembled.
Ladies, Iraq, Qatar, united in doing arts,
traditionalist /
innovative.
Scratching
Sent
cards, revolted against the capitalist hospitals,
inevitably,
needling guests. Come, respected artists,
they’re
crying helps, into nights, getting silences. Read
any
Turgenevs, Chekovs, having insights, novels’ve gone
slower,
candlelight. Ambient trucks, cardamom honey, I’d
not
God, since Christmas’s rescinded. Told court he’d
infested
Nevada, growing spinaches, cauliflowers, running
around.
Capable, honest, intelligent, no general suspicions,
captured,
rejecting acceptances, thoroughly. Had it now,
glorious
satins, collars red, and trousers chartreuse.
Imploding novas, gases suspended, comets
reduced
Arctic
territories, causing havoc. Never go searching,
casually,
repaired applications, ‘Total Control’, heaped
insanities.
Special collisions, rocked against tyrannies,
concerts
harmonised, importunately Nabokovian.
Inter[r]egnum
I’m not, the Elizabeth Regina, eaten /
greedy, neurotic,
unheedingly mean. National Theatre’s
endangered rats,
even geese, native ur-squirrels,
mellifluous ibises.
Tristesse, et regard, evidently, gravel, now unbothersome,
melon indigestion, nagged. Economists
reading economists,
gripped, ‘Numb’, U2, method is
nephew’s, tested.
Raccoons eating garbages, naturally uneven musics, I’m
nearly tremulous, emptied. Evangelists
gone north, uttering,
monetarism’s instinctively not truthful
/ empathetic /
rational. Glowing nitroglycerins,
umbrellas made in Nepal,
Tibet, Egyptian / Russian empires.
Nanny urged me,
invaded Netherlands, then England,
ruining every game.
Universe might’ve isolated, neither tried embracing,
related, epoxy glued nuisances. Icicled
noses, toes, elbows,
rude, exhausted gnomes / nuns,
unpersuaded.
Michael Farrell is a queer poet from Bombala, NSW, living in Melbourne since 1990. Previous book publications include: Googlecholia (poems), A Lyrebird (U.S. selected poems); The Victoria Principle (stories), Writing Australian Unsettlement (literary history), and Ashbery Mode (poetry anthology; as editor). Michael edits The Chalamet Review, and is also poetry editor of Westerly. As well as numerous national and international publications and performances, Michael has had a number of creative residencies, including periods in Rome (Italy), Canterbury (UK), Nagoya (Japan), Jilin (China) and Ljubljana (Slovenia).
