Sandra Renew
Sugar and Mangoes
I listen to summer season jazz, drink exotic holiday coffee, dream my way through novels with unlikely and less-than-gripping plots. The sugar is harvested, seasonal workers gone, leaving us lonely. Burdekin mangoes drop, lusciously ripe into long grass—juiced energy for the heat of December summer.
in May
sugarcane will arrow
in flower
not for domestic display—
signalling time passing
About the Author
Sandra Renew’s poetry comments on contemporary issues and questions including war, language, environment, climate and the planet’s health, translation, border crossings, dissent, gender. She lives in Canberra, Australia.