Melbourne Street Art Septet, Circa 2021
i.
disproportionately
large grass
-hopper
camouflaged
by greenery
ii.
fetching
feminine face
tattooed
in three shades of blue
iii.
monochrome
masculine mug
graffitied
with red irises and red pupils
iv.
one
eno
light ♡ thgil
heart
traeh
cradled
deldarc
by
the limbs sbmil
eht yb
of
a leafless tree eert sselfael
a fo
frozen
in midwinter retniwdim ni nezorf
v.
spherical
green monster
baring
pronounced
teeth
vi.
the
capital word
‘MELBOURNE’
written
on a ribbon
draped
round
red
roses
vii.
bold
words
of
realist art
sprayed
on a street sign:
viral mutations are real
The
Hearts of Matters
A
golden shovel whereby the final word of each line is from U2’s song ‘Sunday
Bloody Sunday’, which appeared on their album ‘War’ (1983)
Sunday
15 August 2021
Conflicts
continue in all manner of fields & trenches.
Peoples
the world over have dug
down
deep to find the titanium will within—
the
will to keep going/speaking/hoping that one day our
world’s
officials will all recognise words spoken from the broken hearts
of
the populace and
give
heart to all the fathers & mothers
give
heart to all the children
give
heart to all the brothers
give
heart to all the sisters
give
heart to all those whose lives have been torn
apart.
Michael J. Leach (@m_jleach) is an Australian academic and poet. Michael’s
poems reside in Lothlorien Poetry Journal, Plumwood Mountain, NatureVolve,
Cordite, Meniscus, Rabbit, The Blue Nib, the
Medical Journal of Australia, the Antarctic Poetry Exhibition,
and elsewhere. His poetry has been anthologised in One Surviving Poem
(In Case of Emergency Press, 2019), No News: 90 Poets Reflect on a
Unique BBC Broadcast (Recent Work Press, 2020), Still You: Poems of
Illness and Healing (Wolf Ridge Press, 2020), and The 2021 Hippocrates
Prize Anthology (The Hippocrates Press, 2021). Michael’s first book is Chronicity
(Melbourne Poets Union, 2020). He lives on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country and
acknowledges the traditional custodians of the land.
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