mango flowers smell like mango fruit
intensely nice
this year
mangoes will conquer evil
no walking away
from beneath the shade of the mango tree

in the Jim Corbett museum they have preserved a leopard
half eaten by a python

when women climb up trees for firewood
in the baked afternoons
I have this intense need for drinking water
now
the spotted deer have gone to sleep

in this world there is no evil
just response to stimuli
and dark leopard walking away
from controlled forest fires made with fallen leaves

and this summer
we will gorge on mangoes
served with incense on gigantic lemon peels