The smell of apples picked fresh from the tree; the feel of one, heavy and round in my hand. Some are already picked, it’s the season for harvesting fruit and veggies ..
APPLE-PICKING 
hands colour the air
shift leaves
pick names Gala
Cox’s Orange Pippin
Fuji Transparent
put them in baskets
leaves reach to steal
the air I breathe
take my footprints
from sunlit grass
a breeze murmurs
of other apples that will ripen
round and red for harvest
an early version was published in Affiliate
The Berry Books are perfect for 3-6 year-olds: Berry the mouse, who lives in a tree, gets into funny situations, and has to find his way out of them.
1960willowtree 