they dressed you in cream
heavy fluffed in butter cake
drizzled in chocolate syrup
but i love you best
freshly plucked
from tree
my hands scooping your flowering-
green-eyed by rain
skin yellowed as papaya
with plump flesh
sliced flat across the seed-
a blend of tangy sweet as jasmine & citrus
halved, quartered & diced
you bring the sun's warm
belly within you
here's my young legs racing towards
the smell of unsweetened chocolate brew,
the steam of rolled sticky rice
mellowed in coconut milk
with a dash of salt
wrapped
in slender palm leaves,
with ripe mangoes
my mornings are gifts from tropical land
Posted for dVerse Poets Pub - Bon Appetit Poetry with guest Misky. Join us when the pub doors open at 3pm EST.
