Live Encounters Poetry & Writing September 2024
Central Victorian Haiku by Michael J Leach.
Central Victorian Haiku
i.
before the fog lifts—
a calf
between cows
ii.
landlocked
lake—
seagulls
iii.
mid-July
I climb to the peak
of my gas bill
© Michael J Leach
Michael J Leach is a poet, reviewer and academic who lives in Bendigo on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Michael’s poetry is featured or forthcoming in journals such as Cordite Poetry Review, exhibitions such as the Antarctic Poetry Exhibition, anthologies such as The Best Australian Science Writing 2024 (NewSouth Publishing), and his four books: Chronicity (MPU), Natural Philosophies (RWP), Rural Ecologies (ICOE Press), and Chords in the Soundscapes (Ginninderra Press). Michael’s poems have won or been otherwise recognised in the UniSA Mental Health and Wellbeing Poetry Competition, Hippocrates Prize for Poetry and Medicine, Minds Shine Bright Confidence Writing Competition, Woollahra Digital Literary Award, Hush Foundation Kindness in Health Writing Prize, and Liquid Amber Press Poetry Prize: Poetry of Change.