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Preserves

A Blue Orpington rooster with soft, even slate-blue plumage in a blue-and-white striped cotton apron, standing on a scrubbed pine kitchen table beside a row of glass jars of dark plum jam with plain metal lids along the windowsill, a clean copper preserving pan and a blue bowl of purple plums, soft afternoon light through a cottage kitchen window

A Pan, Fourteen Jars

The plums came all at once, as plums do, and the afternoon went to the pan. Now the jars cool in a row along the sill, and he keeps watch over them in his apron until every last lid has clicked.

30 September 2026

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