Heritage building

A tribute to the convicts who built Australia’s colonial architecture

arrowed men

flogged to the bone,

in chains

in gangs

crafted stone.

England’s green

is lost and gone,

harsh light

stiff whips —

labour on.

Some set free

some laid to rest,

unmarked

unmourned

dispossessed.

See their works

and honour them,

the gifts of those

arrowed men.