North Adelaide, Kaurna Country, 2014

 

My mate and I sit at the British Hotel

to celebrate all the work she did so well.

While we drink to long days,

the rock song ‘England’ plays

alongside St Peter’s Cathedral’s old bells.

 

Stereo Story# 688

 

St Peter’s Cathedral, Adelaide. Image via Wikipedia.

Michael Leach is an award-winning poet and academic based in Bendigo on unceded Dja Dja Wurrung Country. Michael’s poetry collections include Chronicity (Melbourne Poets Union,2020), Natural Philosophies (Recent Work Press, 2022), Rural Ecologies (In Case ofEmergency Press, 2024), and Chords in the Soundscapes (Ginninderra Press, 2025).