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).