Bio
Rohan Buettel lives in Canberra, Australia. His haiku appear in Australian and international journals (including Presence, Cattails and The Heron's Nest). His longer poetry appears in various journals, including Rattle, Shot Glass, Meanjin, Meniscus and Quadrant.
Rohan Buettel
Regeneration
In the aftermath of war
or other cause of major trauma,
you need a process for restoring,
renewing, strengthening,
reintegrating a fractured personality,
making you whole once more,
like corals on a reef propagating
after a major bleaching event.
But you remain closed,
those around you suffer
as you resist intervention,
seek to protect yourself
by avoiding reliving the experience,
yet still the memories return.