FIG TREE

by Janet Wentworth  2015

in my garden

a miracle

planted by birds

FROM EPICTETUS. A Greek speaking

philosopher,  55-135 AD

"No great thing is created suddenly

any more than a bunch of grapes or

a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig.

I answer you, there must be time.

Let it blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen"

look forward

a fig from the birds 

or “for the birds”

who ever gets there first.

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