Bendigo, Australia, 2020

 

It’s COVID stable

in December:

I’m sat at the table

eating porridge

with pieces of apple

while listening

to ‘Under the Table’

by Fiona Apple

—1 of the precious

few pleasurable

things to have come

 from a debacle

of a calendar year.

 

 

Stereo Story #564

See also a 2015 story by Matthew Mastricova about the Fiona Apple song Regret.


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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, forthcoming).