plums i left too long
they're over-ripe & gone
my mother’s ghost tutts

‘waste not want not’ she insists
— dutiful son now makes jam

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Image: detail from Edouard Manet, Plum Brandy, c. 1877 c/- Wikimedia

And for music…in keeping with the global theme, here’s a Meeting by the River with Vishwa Mohan Bhatt and Ry Cooder – maybe start with Ganges Delta Blues