You Can Net Poem by Douglas Scotney

I suspect,
that in the counter to the effect
on the body
of a heatwave -
the strained, boiled raw-mango,
salt, sugar and cumin drink
aam panna -
that the fruit and the spice
can vary according to latitude and taste.

At 35 south I don't grow tropic.

Raw-plum panna with cumin's not bad,
the spice roasted and ground.

I prefer ripe plums,
but what can you do,
with bugger-birds around?

Will cumin go fine
with raw grapes from my vine?