no fly in a flicker of the bluetongue’s tongue
haiku & other small poems
no fly in a flicker of the bluetongue’s tongue
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
It's all there in the rhythm…..excellent, Lorin.
I thought I might have to call the vet to help me understand what’s happening here. But I take it the blue tongue is not from blue tongue disease, so it’s an Australian skink, who missed a fly. Difficult moment to capture, but appropriate that you did it with a tongue twister. Subtle!
Ah, yes yes yes! What more can I say?
Going straight into my "favorites" notebook. I enjoy reading it aloud. Yes, the rhythm!
Wadi Rum
the faint scent of Aqaba
A beauty. i can see it, hear it, feel it.
Oh I could really see this — well, in a "now you see it, now you don't" kind of way! :)
Congrats, Lorin.
marion