Mango moon by Yana Kane
Mmmm – mmmm!
Mango moon
Growing, ripening.
Soon, soon
it will rise sweet,
it will rise full,
heavy with juice,
ready to fall
into the waiting
mouth of the night.
Fill it with flowing
glowing delight.
Yana came to the United States as a refugee from the Soviet Union when she was a teenager. She has a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Princeton University and a Ph. D. in Statistics from Cornell University. She works as a data scientist / engineer.