Treasure
By Bonny Cassidy
Published 19 October 2023
He rose.
Time fell away
in strands. It had coloured
him, breathing
as he breathed, broken
in places like water.
His hips circled forward
a crowded horizon
its surface grazed.
In 2012, Melbourne poet Bonny Cassidy led students of Luther College on a journey to uncover their own poetry object, exploring Red Room Poetry The Cabinet of Lost and Found learning resource. Students were asked to select a 'talismanic object' which has special meaning to them to use as stimulus for a poem, as well as to create a personal cabinet, in the form of an anthology of poems. Bonny composed this poem for the school.