Saturday, January 1, 2022

picking the plums now

we say
in age, now i'm just picking
the plums
from the tree.
the fat juicy
plums
reachable with a stretched
arm.
we leave the high
ones be.
the ones on the ground
scattered
we walk around,
leaving them
for birds,
for animals, for 
hungrier mouths,
for bees.

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