Poems nested content

Vanessa Konieczka
Student at Bayside College

Haiku reads: Please open yourself, Face me while vulnerable, Be human with me

Alyssa McInerney
Student at Lowther Hall

Haiku reads: Dappled light through trees, Wind whispers by old doorways, Book rests on my knee

Veronica Troup
Emerging poet

Haiku reads: cicada summer, splayed back on warm concrete, ash clouds gather

Rani Hansen
Alum, Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

Haiku reads: You had desires, before the algorithm, told you what they were

Phil Maude
Alum, Doctor of Philosophy - Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences

Haiku reads: Names once thrown like stones, glitter now in chosen light, queer blooms from the wound

Katherine Firth
Interim Head, International House

Haiku reads: The dining hall waits, between meals, a sparrow flits, from chair to empty chair

Zoe Keeghan
Library Service Officer, Baillieu Library

Haiku reads: Our teeth sink into loukmades. Honeyed laughs hold us tightly-here.

Maddison Miller (Dharug)
Lecturer, Ecological Knowledges of Country, Faculty of Science

Haiku reads: the land is longing, spilling her sovereign waters, Birrarung unfurls

Keely Boyle
Current student, Master of Creative Writing, Publishing and Editing

Haiku reads: A cat with old bones, sits near a sunlit window. You try not to stare.

Cecily de Gooyer
Current student, Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)

Haiku reads: Faces flow like stars, orbiting all alone, on the silent tram

Marshall Matthews
Current student, Bachelor of Arts

Haiku reads: No, it was a sneeze. Can we relight the candles? What about my wish?

Dhruv Patel
Current student, Bachelor of Commerce

Haiku reads: Tram doors slide open- a hundred faces look up from a hundred screens