Monday 30 July 2012

Gone South

Heavy fruit hangs low
On tired bough
Heated and over-ripe
drops to sun scorched grass
Where scavengers reap the last rotten remains.
Filled buckets and jars in younger days,
made pies, hay.
Bored now of sweetness
Or it bored of me
As I went South this summer.

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