Mango Season is Over, a poem
News hit the bed sheets like
a falling lightbulb,
plummeting from the cracking
ceiling, shattering
in the soft linen. We spend
the following days
picking shards from
pillows and skin
and staring at piles of laundry
which might never be clean.
Fragile is the head
on my chest
the moment before
the lightbulb fell.
I am so tired of phone calls.
Meg Edwards is a fourth year student at the University of Edinburgh studying English Literature and History.
“Mango Season is Over.” Illustration by Alexandra McDermott Brown.