The fig tree
I tell my mother about the poem Philip Larkin wrote after his father died, moving his store of jam from cupboard to cupboard, a stock more than enough for all next summer's teas. I forget the words and recite it several times and then look out at the fig tree in the garden, the one that almost collapsed under the weight of last year's fruit. I piled pun…
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