The Time of Ripe Figs by Allen P. West (2002)

 The Time of Ripe Figs

Allen P. West

White Eagle Coffee Store Press

Fox River Grove, IL

(c)2002

This book confuses me. The poems are about grief and loss (of a spouse) and have nothing directly to do with the title of the collection or the image. None that I could glean. 

I am mostly intrigued by the Press, to be honest. Such an unusual name. Even the town the Press is located in, distinctive. They have a website that appears to have been created at the dawn of the internet age. Most of the titles of their published works do not have links to them. Does this mean they are all out of print? 

One of the poems is entitled "I am a Jar". Well, I am con-fused.