Pendaratan yang Salah
Membeli barang-barang yang dia inginkan
perhiasan hati di angin –
Minum krim brendi, bernyanyi bersama
sesuai irama tusukan-tok jam.
Tempatkan hasil uang kemenangan di bawah tumpukan kotoran sapi
Menebar lavender ke dalam setiap baris
Memasang kawat peledak bom di antara dawai-dawai biola
yang berhadapan denganku dalam kegelapan.
Nada yang sama jatuh
menjadi aksen irama musik yang sama
Aku adalah sebuah aksen –
Pantat yang ingin kau tepuk
Sepak ke samping
Koboi berpistol palsu
Madame Bovary, ya itulah aku
Namun ini bukan sebuah pengakuan
Tentang Paris, atau apa pun.
Sila mendesah, sesuka hati.
Kita akan selalu memiliki teknologi.
Perkenalkan perasaan apa saja –
Rasa spermento, spearmint, serpent atau sea spray semprot laut?
Aku akan meminta rejeki nomplok lain –
Sebuah rumah besar yang nyaman di antara pohon-pohon, tetapi
Kau akan memberiku sesuatu yang lain:
Sebuah moncong lentera yang tidak melepaskan satu pun cahaya nyasar.
Perlu berhari-hari untuk sebuah ketiadaan
Untuk mulai mengartikan sesuatu yang lain.
False Landing
Buy the things she wants
A bauble heart in the wind––
Drink cream-brandy, sing along
To the pin-pricks of the clocks.
Place the jackpot under a cow patty
Sow lavender into each row
Thread trip wires into the violins
I move in the dark against.
Same notes falling
into the same accent
I’m an accent––
An arse you want to pat
Kick it aside
Pop gun cowboy
Madame Bovary, yes it’s me
However this is not a confession
About Paris, or anything else.
Sigh all you like
We’ll always have technology viz.
Any promotional feeling––
Spermento or spearmint or serpent or sea spray?
I’ll ask for another windfall––
A warm mansion amongst the trees, but
You’ll give me something else:
A lantern jaw which sheds not a single
stray of light.
It takes days for the absence
To start to mean something else.
- 115: SPACE
with A Sometimes
114: NO THEME 13
with J Toledo & C Tse
113: INVISIBLE WALLS
with A Walker & D Disney
112: TREAT
with T Dearborn
111: BABY
with S Deo & L Ferney
110: POP!
with Z Frost & B Jessen
109: NO THEME 12
with C Maling & N Rhook
108: DEDICATION
with L Patterson & L Garcia-Dolnik
107: LIMINAL
with B Li
106: OPEN
with C Lowe & J Langdon
105: NO THEME 11
with E Grills & E Stewart
104: KIN
with E Shiosaki
103: AMBLE
with E Gomez and S Gory
102: GAME
with R Green and J Maxwell
101: NO THEME 10
with J Kinsella and J Leanne
100: BROWNFACE
with W S Dunn
99: SINGAPORE
with J Ip and A Pang
97 & 98: PROPAGANDA
with M Breeze and S Groth
96: NO THEME IX
with M Gill and J Thayil
95: EARTH
with M Takolander
94: BAYT
with Z Hashem Beck
93: PEACH
with L Van, G Mouratidis, L Toong
92: NO THEME VIII
with C Gaskin
91: MONSTER
with N Curnow
90: AFRICAN DIASPORA
with S Umar
89: DOMESTIC
with N Harkin
88: TRANSQUEER
with S Barnes and Q Eades
87: DIFFICULT
with O Schwartz & H Isemonger
86: NO THEME VII
with L Gorton
85: PHILIPPINES
with Mookie L and S Lua
84: SUBURBIA
with L Brown and N O'Reilly
83: MATHEMATICS
with F Hile
82: LAND
with J Stuart and J Gibian
81: NEW CARIBBEAN
with V Lucien
80: NO THEME VI
with J Beveridge
57.1: EKPHRASTIC
with C Atherton and P Hetherington
57: CONFESSION
with K Glastonbury
56: EXPLODE
with D Disney
55.1: DALIT / INDIGENOUS
with M Chakraborty and K MacCarter
55: FUTURE MACHINES
with Bella Li
54: NO THEME V
with F Wright and O Sakr
53.0: THE END
with P Brown
52.0: TOIL
with C Jenkins
51.1: UMAMI
with L Davies and Lifted Brow
51.0: TRANSTASMAN
with B Cassidy
50.0: NO THEME IV
with J Tranter
49.1: A BRITISH / IRISH
with M Hall and S Seita
49.0: OBSOLETE
with T Ryan
48.1: CANADA
with K MacCarter and S Rhodes
48.0: CONSTRAINT
with C Wakeling
47.0: COLLABORATION
with L Armand and H Lambert
46.1: MELBOURNE
with M Farrell
46.0: NO THEME III
with F Plunkett
45.0: SILENCE
with J Owen
44.0: GONDWANALAND
with D Motion
43.1: PUMPKIN
with K MacCarter
43.0: MASQUE
with A Vickery
42.0: NO THEME II
with G Ryan
41.1: RATBAGGERY
with D Hose
41.0: TRANSPACIFIC
with J Rowe and M Nardone
40.1: INDONESIA
with K MacCarter
40.0: INTERLOCUTOR
with L Hart
39.1: GIBBERBIRD
with S Gory
39.0: JACKPOT!
with S Wagan Watson
38.0: SYDNEY
with A Lorange
37.1: NEBRASKA
with S Whalen
37.0: NO THEME!
with A Wearne
36.0: ELECTRONICA
with J Jones