‘Things that get lost in the orchard’ by Orchard Keeper Terry – full text below the images
‘Things that get lost in the orchard’
2 and a half pairs of sunglasses
Water bottles
bogged tractors (to be retrieved in early summer)
Where we were up to, thinning
the sense of time passing
Time
My shadows in the grass as clouds pass
Cows (not really lost. Partying ‘innocently’ as if lost)
sounds, voices, songs, on the wind
can’t see the forest for the trees
My keys
Sorry, left my secateurs, Be right back
Row 13
Not sure if row 13 is there,
is not there,
was ever there,
was never there,
or if I am just lost
in it
Kangaroos, cockatoos, earwigs, slugs, snails, rosellas, foxes, brown snakes, red belly black snakes,
hares, turtles, lizards, spiders, butterflies, lichen, moths, fungus, beautiful iridescent blue ants that
Sam found (Actually, duh, none of these are lost)
Sewing needle and twine for repairing nets
Sanity (No, not really)
The bigness (Yes, really)
Knives, twine, lunch, hooks, hats, beanies and gloves.
Hankies, earrings, dummies (spat), sharpening stones,
things you know you should have left at home
things that will probably be found in a year or so
Only, tiny, rarely, things that make you cry for losing
Things that never get lost in the orchard:
Friends
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