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.
I have many interests, but they centre on history, culture, writing, and governing well. Explore the site. Listen to my podcast. Buy my books. Join the infinite conversation.
Jeff Rich, Melbourne, 2022.
The way out machine
I enclose my breath in a mask
In the distance we keep for fear
Pump hope into my lungs
And begin to dream
Of the way out machine
That will free us from
The dictatorship of the physicians.
Melbourne, July 2020
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