Un Mango Grows in Kansas
You have found me
hidden in a wheat field
within a husk of corn
growing for you
I am ready
pick me
Hold me in your hands
remove my skin
peel away my color
find that I am tender
soft and sweet
Eat of me
until there is nothing
and your mouths are empty
and your bellies filled
What is left
will live
as seed
to grow
again
brighter
hardened
and less bitter
Credit
Copyright © 2020 by Huascar Medina. From Un Mango Grows in Kansas (Spartan Press, 2020). Used with the permission of the poet.
Author
Huascar Medina
Huascar Medina was born in Killeen, Texas. He is the author of Un Mango Grows in Kansas (Spartan Press, 2020) and How to Hang the Moon (Spartan Press, 2017). Medina is the literary editor for seveneightfive magazine, a Sunday columnist for the Kansas Reflector, and a staff editor at South Broadway Press. He currently resides in Lawrence, Kansas, and serves as the seventh poet laureate of Kansas. In 2022, Medina received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship.
Date Published: 2020-01-01
Source URL: https://poets.org/poem/un-mango-grows-kansas