an open field: july river 11

Monday

july river 11

these gorgeous girls
in their Italian sunglasses
and sparkly flip-flops
who move like water

I want to press a fingertip
to their golden skin
just to watch it spring
back into place

4 comments:

richard11 July 2011 at 13:54
My favorite thing to do!
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Lolly11 July 2011 at 17:09
Made me smile.
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Ralf Bröker11 July 2011 at 22:55
Great verse about this itch to do something you only would do when you are young - and you only think about to do it when you are not. My skin still finds its old position: I drink three litres of water a day ;-)

Best wishes
Ralf
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Lynne Rees12 July 2011 at 09:23
Hi, richard, Lolly, Ralf!

Oh I wish my skin was as bouncy, Ralf!
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About me

I am the author of a novel, The Oven House, a collection of poetry, Learning How to Fall, Messages, a volume of short, collaborative prose, a psycho-geography of my hometown in South Wales, UK, Real Port Talbot (Seren Books), and The Hungry Writer, Stories, Recipes & Writing Prompts, based on my blog of the same name.

I started working with haiku forms - haiku, senryu, tanka, rengay and haibun - in 2006, acted as the haibun editor at Simply Haiku during 2008 and 2009, and was co-editor, with Jo Pacsoo, of the British Haiku Society's Haibun Anthology, The Unseen Wind (2010). In 2011 I was joint editor, with Nigel Jenkins and Ken Jones, of another country, haiku poetry from Wales (Gomer Press) and one of the adjudicators for the haibun section of the inaugural British Haiku Award.

During 2014 and 2015 I was submissions and commissioning editor, along with Bob Lucky, at CHO: Contemporary Haibun Online and my haibun collection, forgiving the rain, is available from Snapshot Press, Britain's leading independent publisher of haiku writing.