Photograph of Patricia with her friends in Neumarkt Square, Amsterdam; Robert Sheppard, and reading in the Tate, coutesy Andrew Taylor
Patricia Farrell is a visual artist, art historian, writer and student of philosophy, and has taught philosophy and creative writing. Published in New Tonal Language from Reality Street. The Zechstein Sea is available from Ship of Fools. She lives in Liverpool with two fools.
TRAVELLING ON ONE TICKET
(outbound)
pointing shifters
another object
previously verbal
a finger towards
and says
also denoting
pointed out something to it
“It will be better” –
and when I say that
a finger can live
without people
she means
all right is plain and heavy
a care-lined face
a heavy face
want her
not
used to beauty
“I think you are like a painting” –
this time takes it from her purse
and leaning out she talks simply
how such columns these heads might be
copying an older maxim not properly understanding
a series of heads and the spaces between
in the case of a butterfly less decomposed
he invented the image
as it were
with the viewer
the connection whatever the argument
and the manuscript of hybrid monsters
characteristics of initial capitals
this sentence is a possible
central theme now
romantics of structure
that’s what mountains are
a winter’s summer’s Christ fulfils itself
hinted at an orchestral piece,
a superb current falls into the irretrievable
and that’s just gentle by the inclusion
to seep in you a first time
a diversity of closes with
will leave you in the wind
sophisticated
idea of resurrection
animation
but from the angular sinister
with a stiff-backed
trying to get any you can see why this intelligent saved the sexed-up but nasty chivalry
(return)
a difficult word being
recalling not a little
disrupts or myths
worked out
several versions interested
in the form updating on
struggle
by those peaceably involved.
levels broad units
in what coup
would reference guarantee
operated by
or at least
some sense its typographical space
to lead them out
that we are bound to fail
just counterfactual
precious as confirmation
or two things
to make a company evidence of
what the weight of
for example
gone on longer
desperation advanced by years
by design of it
of it in the areas
worst is much more
have turned
there were clear signs
frightening again
maybe
pure incarnation
done in usual panic
consistent
our ethic unique enough
there is no object
purpose behind
unpersonal purpose
intimately fade all this
but to make the world
ultimate
indeed for no other reason
to argue
for to do so
prompted
if at all lasting
without reward
playing became
betwixt-and-between
visit the house
the window that she missed
options locked
when with her arm
reach the window
iron bars are up
turned his back on
turned himself
from that day on
- “I am your enemy”
were out and relied on
who turned framed by rivers
of those converging
deposited
nevertheless convinced
that the judgement
who reads the left in any document
indeed questions convention’s epidemic
a number who at a time
freed
from them to invite
so that witnesses come forward
for all that although
TRAVELLING ON ONE TICKET
(outbound)
pointing shifters
another object
previously verbal
a finger towards
and says
also denoting
pointed out something to it
“It will be better” –
and when I say that
a finger can live
without people
she means
all right is plain and heavy
a care-lined face
a heavy face
want her
not
used to beauty
“I think you are like a painting” –
this time takes it from her purse
and leaning out she talks simply
how such columns these heads might be
copying an older maxim not properly understanding
a series of heads and the spaces between
in the case of a butterfly less decomposed
he invented the image
as it were
with the viewer
the connection whatever the argument
and the manuscript of hybrid monsters
characteristics of initial capitals
this sentence is a possible
central theme now
romantics of structure
that’s what mountains are
a winter’s summer’s Christ fulfils itself
hinted at an orchestral piece,
a superb current falls into the irretrievable
and that’s just gentle by the inclusion
to seep in you a first time
a diversity of closes with
will leave you in the wind
sophisticated
idea of resurrection
animation
but from the angular sinister
with a stiff-backed
trying to get any you can see why this intelligent saved the sexed-up but nasty chivalry
(return)
a difficult word being
recalling not a little
disrupts or myths
worked out
several versions interested
in the form updating on
struggle
by those peaceably involved.
levels broad units
in what coup
would reference guarantee
operated by
or at least
some sense its typographical space
to lead them out
that we are bound to fail
just counterfactual
precious as confirmation
or two things
to make a company evidence of
what the weight of
for example
gone on longer
desperation advanced by years
by design of it
of it in the areas
worst is much more
have turned
there were clear signs
frightening again
maybe
pure incarnation
done in usual panic
consistent
our ethic unique enough
there is no object
purpose behind
unpersonal purpose
intimately fade all this
but to make the world
ultimate
indeed for no other reason
to argue
for to do so
prompted
if at all lasting
without reward
playing became
betwixt-and-between
visit the house
the window that she missed
options locked
when with her arm
reach the window
iron bars are up
turned his back on
turned himself
from that day on
- “I am your enemy”
were out and relied on
who turned framed by rivers
of those converging
deposited
nevertheless convinced
that the judgement
who reads the left in any document
indeed questions convention’s epidemic
a number who at a time
freed
from them to invite
so that witnesses come forward
for all that although
Read more poems at
http://shadowtrain.com/id173.html
and
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/magazine/back_issues/shearsman73_74/farrell.html
See some of her artwork at
http://robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2005/08/patricia-farrell-tomorrows-attack.html
and at
http://shadowtrain.com/id173.html
and
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/magazine/back_issues/shearsman73_74/farrell.html
See some of her artwork at
http://robertsheppard.blogspot.com/2005/08/patricia-farrell-tomorrows-attack.html
and at
Hear her reading at The Other Room (Manchester) at
Her website is here: http://patriciafarrell.weebly.com.
