Seven Ways To Eat a Mango

Seven Ways To Miss You Eat A Mango

1.
eat it the way I taught you,
carefully cut into small cubes,
for sharing.

2.
split it in two –
the knife cuts easier
than you first imagined,
until you reach the core.
cut around it.

3.
lounging in the sun in summer
thinking of too many things,
just biting into it like an apple:
a slick, sweet-smelling juice dripping down your hands.

4.
    4.1.
    why do you ask about mango?

    4.2.
    how do I write about mango?

5.
in the morning,
randomly selecting a pot of yoghurt from the fridge;
memories bursting like flavor under your teeth,
soft and unexpected.

6.
we’ll make plans
for next time

to try the mango pudding
down in chinatown.

7.
seven is too long.
time is too long.
we don’t know how to wait
the mango and I,
we will surely spoil,
the mango and I,
and I, alone,
eating a mango.