#50 | Plums In The Icebox

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Jul 24, 2021

My wife snagged me a copy of Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams from a free library in our hood while on a dog walk. Reading through the poems before dinner: Pastoral (sparrows quarreling), the red you know what, Portrait of a Lady (“Your knees are a southern breeze”), The Botticellian Trees, and then on page 55:

This Is Just To Say

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for
breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and cold.

–WCW

#Protip: if you keep your plums in the icebox they don’t ripen to mush and taste really delicious.

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