Orchards in decline draw attention not to void but to the lingering effects of past life—phantom weight in soil altered by redistributed nutrients. A gardener’s long experience shows this isn't simple erasure, but a continued negotiation with what remains; even as forms dissolve, energies cycle back into potential growth. This echoes a somatics resistance to finality, where expectations subtly shift based on occluded networks of buried roots and the land’s persistent memory—a balance perpetually recalibrating over time.
