
Fruit in the summer is endlessly pleasing both to taste (so much better that supermarket winter stuff) and to look at. I was at the market and selected the box of plums with a few leaves attached …it makes me feel closer to the tree! I put these warm yellowy-peach coloured plums in a blue bowl that made them sing. Complimentary colours don’t always get me excited but I thought this worked.
Tom’s poem is a riff on a very famous 20th C American poem by William Carlos Williams. If you don’t know it, check out the link. Amusing!
You just need to hear
You have painted
the plums
that were on
the table
and which
I waited to eat
until
you finished
I forgive:
they are beautiful
so bright
and so bold
https://poets.org/poem/just-say
image (c) 2019 Hilary Farmer
poem (c) 2019 TJ Radcliffe