A lost item, re-found.

As I sit on my couch doing a puzzle magazine, I set my pencil down at some point, only for it to fall behind the bottom seat-cushion.

Then, when I lift up the seat cushion and I don’t see it and I run my hand around to see if it fell further into crevices there at the edges where the couch-pieces are joined together, it becomes clear that it fell though this gap in the material on which the cushion rests – there was a clatter, and it fell out the bottom of the couch – but in the crevice by the bottom of the couch-back I find a hot pink pencil that I had lost forever ago, and that I had thought was eternally missing.