après the mango season

après the mango season is a sensual, lyrical poetry collection exploring love, heartbreak, grief, and healing.Structured in four intimate movements, Zoe Rosenthal's poems trace the arc of emotional experience-from the sweetness of desire to the quiet ache of loss, from rupture to resilience, from longing to the slow, sacred softening that follows. These poems linger in moments of intimacy and aftermath, asking what it means to love deeply and to live honestly with what remains.Rooted in sensory detail-monsoon rain, mango flesh, city streets-this collection moves through romantic, platonic, and familial love while engaging questions of heritage, identity, and the human experience. Delicate yet unflinching, Rosenthal's writing honors vulnerability in all its forms: the breaking, the remembering, the becoming.après the mango season is an invitation to sit with the fullness of your own heart-its sweetness, its sorrow, and all the soft places in between.Perfect for readers drawn to emotional, atmospheric, and romantic poetry.