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.
the sand scorched
heat and absence
our monsoon rains are late this year
and tonight (at last the night)
the dogs will sleep
inside fresh holes
dug to the cool sand
not like this burnt afternoon
dusk, where the sun has gone
(I don’t know)
but her sting
biting still
© Melinda J. Irvine
