By Rob Schackne They looked around unimaginably so miserable really those refugee detectives who tricked them they stared at you ten minutes to find out if you're from your hometown they answered till they misremembered the street names why they took their kids to run for their lives the blood and bandages these very languages … Continue reading Once the Migrants Came
Water of Life
By Rob Schackne Water of life where sometimes life cannot go two sides of spirit no argument of deep things the outlaws talk the single malt satori tomorrow the rent is due all the rivers next stop no stop
The Chook Raffle
By Rob Schackne The chook raffle lotteries won who needs a feed this week gets one a crescent moon don't get excited jokers everywhere your turn is next how do we miss it placed in a landscape waiting to be born
A Utopian Flash
By Rob Schackne A utopian flash to be a rock and not to roll nothing says solar system like the rain wind up slow eyes birds scatter I mop the floor a poem or two clouds clear
Yesterday
By Rob Schackne It meets the eye yesterday we met migrants walking on the beach out of sight they turned waxing crescent yesterday we met they came back there was a boat that's not it what meets the eye yesterday we met a bloodbath yesterday we met at the poetry shop yesterday we met on … Continue reading Yesterday
Academy of the Heart And Mind 