Truisms

There are few more provisional 

lamentations than:

the mango is ready 

when the mango is ready. 

There is also rarely a more 

excitable truism, 

when the mango is ready, 

to say that it is. 

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Full Moon

In the water up to my knees,

braiding my hair with busied hands,

you were distracted

waiting for the right time —

but that was the right time, there, 

that moment with the seagull, 

and this moment, 

falling under the white crest, 

upside-down,

realizing the moon is out at mid-day, 

not yet sickled, 

and this moment, right-side up, 

hair tossed, chest sandy, 

as honest as our freckles can be

without saying it out loud,

and this one, complicit,

if you let it; 

the answer is yes

— feral yes,

virgin yes — 

let go,

you can’t miss it.

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