Melinda J. Irvine is an Australian writer, poet, and blogger living between the Philippines and Australia. Mel is adopted mum to Jerry, a Filipino boy she met in 2015 while volunteering after Typhoon Yolanda. All the money she earns as a freelance writer and author get her one step closer to legally adopting Jerry — plus helping the other kids from his village go to school.
missing iphone found
(that little boy) his brown eyes
filled with photographs
small selection of
seven hundred and seven
selfies of Jerry
© 2015 Melinda Irvine