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2title: Leaf
3id: leaf
4genre: prose
5
6project:
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
22He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the earth floor of his Writing Shack.
23He exhaled looking out of the window.
24He hoped to see a bird fly by, maybe a blue jay or raven.
25[No bird did][].
26He inhaled.
27He exhaled again in a way that could [only be classified][] as a sigh.
28He sat down at his writing desk.
29He 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.*"
32He 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][].
34He 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