Michael J Leach – Windows

Leach LE P&W Vol 1 Nov-Dec 2025

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Live Encounters Poetry & Writing 16th Anniversary Volume One
November- December 2025

Windows, poem by Michael J Leach.


Windows

i.
office window—
a wattlebird
views the whiteboard

ii.
car window—
a grey roo waits
on the footpath

iii.
neighbour’s window—
a black cat
looks
out

iv.
window shopping
bare
floor space

v.
my bedroom
window—
wallabies

vi
Windows update…
the window
darkens

vii.
Melbourne hotel
my window looks out
on windows

viii.
window seat
Sydney Harbour
Bridge


© Michael J Leach

Michael J Leach lives and works on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Michael’s poems have appeared in journals such as Cordite Poetry Review, anthologies such as under the same moon: Fourth Australian Haiku Anthology (Forty South Publishing Pty Ltd, 2023), and his four poetry books: Chronicity (Melbourne Poets Union, 2020), Natural Philosophies (Recent Work Press, 2022), Rural Ecologies (In Case of Emergency Press, 2024), and Chords in the Soundscapes (Ginninderra Press, 2025). Michael’s poems have been recognised in various competitions, most recently first place in the Philippa Holland Award for Poetry (Eastwood/Hills Fellowship of Australian Writers Literary Competition 2025).

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