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This poem sets up a kitchen scene. We see an icebox, plums, and we can imagine the later breakfast (sans stone fruit). The poem itself is probably a note on the icebox. This image shows us a lot about the life of our speaker, and about his relationship to the other person who lives with him, although we can't always pin it down. He is close enough to her to eat her plums, but loves her enough, and feels bad enough, that he leaves this note. What she has to say about her missing fruit, we can only guess.