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1 | --- | ||
2 | title: Leaf | ||
3 | id: leaf | ||
4 | genre: prose | ||
5 | |||
6 | project: | ||
7 | title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods" | ||
8 | class: paul | ||
9 | order: 3 | ||
10 | next: | ||
11 | - title: Writing | ||
12 | link: writing | ||
13 | - title: Leg | ||
14 | link: leg | ||
15 | prev: | ||
16 | - title: Axe | ||
17 | link: axe | ||
18 | - title: Joke | ||
19 | link: joke | ||
20 | ... | ||
21 | |||
22 | He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack. | ||
23 | He exhaled looking out of the window. | ||
24 | He hoped to see a bird fly by, maybe a blue jay or raven. | ||
25 | [No bird did][]. | ||
26 | He inhaled. | ||
27 | He exhaled again in a way that could [only be classified][] as a sigh. | ||
28 | He sat down at his writing desk. | ||
29 | He began shuffling through what he'd written, trying to find some sort of pattern. | ||
30 | |||
31 | "*Each piece of paper---each leaf---*" at this he smiled---"*is like a tree in the forest.*" | ||
32 | He was writing as he thought aloud. | ||
33 | "*I, as the artist, as the **writer**, must select which to use, chop down those trees, bring them back to my shed and*---and---" he frowned as he realized the only end to this [metaphor was fire][]. | ||
34 | He ran his fingers through his hair in a self-soothing gesture. | ||
35 | |||
36 | "I need to build some furniture" he thought. | ||
37 | |||
38 | [No bird did]: last-passenger.html | ||
39 | [only be classified]: last-bastion.html | ||
40 | [metaphor was fire]: the-night-we-met.html | ||