May 2022, Bendigo, Dja Dja Wurrung Country

I think of spring up
in Memphis + feel autumn
here in Bendigo…
I’ve ne’er travelled to Memphis
yet have just been to Graceland.

 

 

The Elvis/Graceland exhibition at Bendigo Art Gallery concluded on 17 July 2022.

This tanka was first published under the title ‘Elvis Graces Bendigo’ in Friday Flash Fiction.

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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).