bold lichen grows. no
matter how many ways i
look at you, i still
don’t know what colour
you are. orange, red
yellow. who are you?
© 2016 Melinda Irvine
Pondering the photos from my trip home to Australia last month.
Lichen
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.