Simple, the poet is happy while eating figs knowing these fruit will not last forever. Figs embody how the ripe is necessary yet transitory. One could get quite biblical about figs, but it's already been done.
So eating a fig or two she asks, "Are poems transitory by nature?"
Mt's p 30
ReplyDeleteimplications of the sentence
go elsewhere
and I, purloined avatar
look inward once again
attainment has an accent
and the stone walls shift