A Summertime Poem: Figs for Birds

Posted on the 07 August 2013 by William Lindsey @wdlindsy

What message
Do the gifties gie us
When figs ripen
Only as the heat index
Reaches one one twelve,
And it's too hot
To go outside
And pick the sweet ripe fruit,
Lending a whole new meaning
To the phrase,
For the birds?