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14th Anniversary Edition, Live Encounters Poetry & Writing Volume Three Nov-Dec 2023.
Changing Habits, poem by Michael J. leach.
Changing Habitats
i.
country roadside—
the motorist holds a blanket
‘round a joey
ii.
wetland
encroached by developments—
frogs plonk
iii.
netted orchard—
a noisy miner flies back
& forth inside
iv.
sugar
bowl on the countertop—
ants
v.
white noise
on the ground floor—
rustling in the roof
© Michael J. Leach
Michael J. Leach (@m_jleach) is an Australian poet, critic and academic. Michael’s poems have appeared in journals such as Cordite Poetry Review, exhibitions such as the Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, anthologies such as Poetry d’Amour 2022: Love Poems (WA Poets Incorporated, 2022), and his two poetry books: the chapbook Chronicity (Melbourne Poets Union, 2020) and the full-length collection Natural Philosophies (Recent Work Press, 2022). Michael has won the UniSA Mental Health and Wellbeing Poetry Competition (2015), received a commendation in the Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine (2021), and jointly won the poetry category of the Minds Shine Bright Confidence Writing Competition (2022). He lives on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country and acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land.