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+title: Leaf
+genre: prose
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    css: paul
+    order: 3
+    next:
+    - title: Writing
+      link: writing
+    - title: Leg
+      link: leg
+    previous:
+    - title: Axe
+      link: axe
+    - title: Joke
+      link: joke
+...
+
+He shrugged the wood off his shoulder, letting it fall with a clog onto the
+earth floor of his Writing Shack.  He exhaled looking out of the window.  He
+hoped to see a bird fly by, maybe a blue jay or raven.  No bird did.  He
+inhaled.  He exhaled again in a way that could only be classified as a sigh.
+He sat down at his writing desk.  He began shuffling through what he'd
+written, trying to find some sort of pattern.
+
+"*Each piece of paper---each leaf---*" at this he smiled--- "*is like a tree
+in the forest.*" He was writing as he thought aloud.  "*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.  He ran his fingers through his hair in a self-soothing
+gesture.
+
+"I need to build some furniture" he thought.