Ern Malley Jr. : Graphology 130: The dripping disincontinent

By | 26 November 2005

To drip in disconnect, to lapse
the major artery, I sit in puddles of love's excess,
so myriad and olfactory, so struck by metaphor
the underwear's lush with growth. So, transmigrate,
so aware of dinner-time, Diocleidas, so aware of androids
on the roof, or electric razors taking wool off sheep: the grinder
scurrilous in shed-time, oh woeful spleen, oh skittish
logico tractables, in burnt paddocks, smoke curlicues
about our brazen fires, thighs drawn in blonde grass,
as beer bottles pop in unison, these propositional signs.
Inferences: so stagger about our rigorous memories,
pubic touching in garden darkness.

Ern is of the park, and occasionally further afield. He channels, divines, and is pretty much an open book. He is losing his ambitions.

 


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John Kinsella's most recent works include the poetry volumes Drowning in Wheat: Selected Poems (Picador, 2016) and Open Door (UWAP, 2018), the story collections Crow’s Breath (Transit Lounge 2015) and Old Growth (Transit Lounge, 2017), and the critical volume Polysituatedness (Manchester University Press, 2017). Recent novels are Lucida Intervalla (UWAP, 2018) and Hollow Earth (Transit Lounge, 2019). He often works in collaboration with other poets, artists, musicians, and activists. With Tracy Ryan he is the co-editor of The Fremantle Press Anthology of Western Australian Poetry (2017). He is a Fellow of Churchill College, Cambridge University, and Emeritus Professor of Literature and Environment at Curtin University, Western Australia. He lives on Ballardong Noongar land at Jam Tree Gully in the Western Australian wheatbelt, and has also lived in the USA, UK and Ireland.

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