{"id":2045,"date":"2013-11-08T02:16:16","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T02:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/?p=2045"},"modified":"2017-07-11T22:48:05","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T22:48:05","slug":"mia-mango-brandon-ward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/mia-mango-brandon-ward\/","title":{"rendered":"Mia Mango by Brandon Ward"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/feather.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1401 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/feather-300x141.jpg\" alt=\"feather\" width=\"300\" height=\"141\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/feather-300x141.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/feather-1024x483.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/feather.jpg 1227w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/141;\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Mia Mango<\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">by Brandon Ward<\/p>\n<p>Mia Mango,<br \/>\nRipe to a family<br \/>\nOf thistle and weeds.<br \/>\nFruitful in her skin,<br \/>\nSmooth,<br \/>\nHairing like a new<br \/>\nBorn.<br \/>\nTwinning mangoes<br \/>\nAt a young age<br \/>\nGrow wise at a sun<br \/>\nSeen soft by a sister<br \/>\nRooted above.<br \/>\nMia Mango,<br \/>\nCore as solid as trust,<br \/>\nTruthful in sight.<br \/>\nSprung from the depths<br \/>\nOf stationary sand traps.<br \/>\nBeached in the back-tracking<br \/>\nOf a wave.<br \/>\nKissed,<br \/>\nSalty in wind on a sour day.<br \/>\nShaded by I,<br \/>\nThe Sequoias.<br \/>\nThe tall in striking<br \/>\nPassion.<br \/>\nMia Mango,<br \/>\nGrip of a hand,<br \/>\nPerfection in buds.<br \/>\nBlending of no bias,<br \/>\nNo sound of a killing joy.<br \/>\nTaste of sweet lust<br \/>\nIn a choking hour,<br \/>\nWashed,<br \/>\nSoaked into my skin<br \/>\nIs the juice of your<br \/>\nupbringing.<br \/>\nSoaked into my lips<br \/>\nIs the juice of a<br \/>\nNight in safety.<br \/>\nA night where no<br \/>\nDreams sever short<br \/>\nIn climax to the sound<br \/>\nOf you,<br \/>\nSnapping like a thick<br \/>\nBranch to a passing,<br \/>\nBreaking to the swift<br \/>\nLine of teeth that is<br \/>\nThat of the midnight<br \/>\nHunter.<br \/>\nThat which is guided<br \/>\nIs no different in want.<br \/>\nSilent,<br \/>\nClosing in like banks<br \/>\nOf fog in the whistling<br \/>\nOf a death.<br \/>\nMia Mango,<br \/>\nGrown from horrors<br \/>\nOf drought to a lovers<br \/>\nTiring clutch.<br \/>\nYou,<br \/>\nSister of twinning mangoes,<br \/>\nI bite you strengthening all wonder till<br \/>\nYou are all that is<br \/>\nInside me.<br \/>\nPlace you in the<br \/>\nStitching that hovers<br \/>\nOver this chemical imbalance.<br \/>\nPocket buldging out<br \/>\nBy the thump of this<br \/>\nPure nut,<br \/>\nI will plant your grace<br \/>\nIn this lover&#8217;s garden<br \/>\nAnd never be without<br \/>\nIn another sunrise.<br \/>\nThis perfect fit of senses,<br \/>\nRejoicing.<br \/>\nMia Mango,<br \/>\nMy Mango.<\/p>\n<p>###<br \/>\nBrandon Ward is from Northern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brandon Ward is from Northern California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[413],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-poems"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.everywritersresource.com\/poemeveryday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}