DAWN

We start the day

with a meal of our farm’s best fruit.

Mangoes,

spilling

their tangy insides

when Leila and I

bury our noses and teeth

to slurp at their pillowy middles.

Ya—it is a good morning.

After we eat, Dando and Old Anwar

go to the far fields.

Their bodies paint blue silhouettes against dawn’s tawny drape.