Light tan parchment paper background with wheat grain texture

Ficus Carica

2021-06-16

№ 312

This young fig
with its five-fingered leaves
leaning back against the south side
of our house
drinks in the June sunshine
and all the water
I can bring
rewards us with
its innocent display
of small green fruit
hanging like testicles
but whose insides
when ripe
promise to be pink
and sweet and soft
like my love's secret rose