The grass walks in the wind,
in love with the wings
of the skylarks.
This mysterious lake
is as deep as my fear,
my fear that I may
one day
see a cloud
and know what it is.
Cloud
Robin Dale
Robin Dale is a part time bohemian and poet, and a full time schizophrenic living in Ferntree Gully, Melbourne, Australia. He was born in the UK and came to Australia in 1970 at the age of 8 with family. Educated in the Western District of Victoria and at Melbourne University where he lived at Queen's College, he quit a postgraduate course in 1987 in order to write. He did odd jobs until 1990 when schizophrenia struck and he was hospitalised with psychosis. For the next thirty or so years he has suffered at the hands of a demonic power, which continues without abatement. In between hospital visits he has continued writing with much success, although he is virtually unpublished. He currently lives in an aged care facility.
