where the past is not past and culture is not in flames
Welcome to the Burning Archive. Here since 2015 I have kept safe from the flames of cultural decay my responses to the writers, stories, institutions and traditions that make the flowers of my mind.
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Jeff Rich, Melbourne, 2022.
Another poem today from my gathering collection, Meditations.
The breath of life
In one moment
The breath disappears
It becomes
Just that
No hanging on
No dreaming on
Pure disappearance:
Death in life
Or is it
Life in death?
Jeff Rich
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