sun-baked dust— the one thing moving is my neighbour?s tongue
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Lorin Ford
Growing up first in the Seaford Beach/Kananook Creek area and then in Cann River, Croajingolong country, East Gippsland, formed Lorin?s sense of belonging to the natural world. Lorin began writing haiku in 2004. She served on the judging panel for the Haiku Dreaming Awards (2009), on the The Haiku Foundation's Touchstone Books Awards Panel (2010, 2011 and 2012) and was co-judge with Lee Gurga for the H.S.A.?s 2018 Henderson Haiku Awards. Lorin was haiku editor for the first nine (quarterly) issues of Notes From the Gean (2009 ? 2011) and subsequently publisher of A Hundred Gourds (2011 ? 2016) where she served as haiku editor, features editor, managing editor and in other editorial roles. In 2014 she founded the 'Red Kelpie Haiku Group' (Melbourne, Australia), convening four meetings each year until the group broke up subsequent to its twentieth meeting in June 2019. Over the years, Lorin's haiku have received awards and been included in excellent anthologies. Books Published: 'a wattle seedpod' (Post Pressed, Teneriffe, Qld, Australia, 2008); e-chapbooks: 'what light there is' (3Lights Gallery, 2009) and 'A Few Quick Brushstrokes', a winner of the Snapshot Press e-chapbook competition, 2011. All three publications are available online, free of charge. View all posts by Lorin Ford
I can really feel the heat and the irritation – great stuff Lorin!
Love it! Your wit is still as sharp as ever Lorin :)
Yes, this is excellent, Lorin. Not enough energy from the draining heat to even say, “Quiet!”
B-D Lorin–made me smile.
summer heat –
my neighbour drills a hole
in my patience
sun baked dust
the one thing moving
is my neighbour's tongue
and the mercury, red
and my irritation, both
rising to meet the sun
lovey lines can you see a broken ladder in neighbours orchard when there fruits are ripe enough
Heckuva good job. I sure apcpreiate it.
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