michael farrell


  key to the sea


    close your hand you are under the potato tree take it

        down to the
        green there theres quite a scene & slip under try to

 die but dont there are piers & salt water urges the drinking of milk a cold breeze here

      its refract into original leaves the

     faster the better & the storm takes place

          & evelyn & warwick run out caught in the kitchen parodying trout on the holiday
          themselves they love

            the wrecked the stones draped
            in kelp gowns the universal deafness when
 
  anyone drowns see the surrounded by apathy everything made up on the spot how exhausting

    & uninteresting the champagne dionne thrashes everyone at everything

 including pruning the roses shhh this is distraction

      & mania the relentless there is a

  tide & were

            going out with it
            theres no merely the

  waiting & dissolving breathe closer breathe further when the

                need make you chemical a memory in the
                blood of earth close your hand you are
                under the potato tree take it down to scene

 & slip under try to

                        die but dont there
                        are piers & peers destroy
                        salt water urges the drinking of milk cubes of mint
                        refract into original leaves the faster the better &

 the storm takes place evelyn & warwick run out caught in the kitchen parodying trout on the holiday theyll draped

     in kelp gowns the universal deafness

      when anyone drowns see the

           island thats an experience living
           there surrounded by apathy

    everything made up on the spot how

               exhausting & interesting the champagne kings
               set up further thrashes everyone at everything
               including pruning the roses shhh this in

     the face of the relentless there is a tide

    & no weather no

       history of pop or england merely the waiting &
       dissolving breathe closer breathe reach & want

   to break apart a tongue will take make you

     chemical a memory in under the potato

                tree take it down to
                the green theres quite a scene & slip under
                try to to save &

     destroy salt water urges the drinking of

 milk into original leaves the faster the better & the storm takes place & parodying trout on the holiday

      theyll learn respect being wholesome themselves they

              love gowns the universal deafness when anyone drowns see the island
              thats apathy everything made up
              on the spot how exhausting & uninteresting the

     champagne kings set up further

      down murdering oysters everything including pruning the

  roses shhh this is distraction & mania energy let of

      the relentless there is a tide &

     were going out with it theres

            no moral no weather no history
            breathe closer breathe further when the need

   rises you reach & want to break apart a
  
     tongue will take make you under the

            its sweet & cubes      
            the music resounds like

 surf from the house evelyn & warwick run out

  mania energy let loose in the face of the




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michael farrell 's book ode ode (Salt) was published in 2003. Recent poems can be found in typo, coconut, slope and otoliths. He lives in Melbourne.




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