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2title: Stump
3genre: prose
4
5id: stump
6toc: "Stump"
7
8project:
9 title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
10 class: paul
11 order: 34
12 next:
13 - title: Early
14 link: early
15 - title: Swear
16 link: swear
17 prev:
18 - title: Joke
19 link: joke
20 - title: Stagnant
21 link: stagnant
22...
23
24He walked into the woods for the first time in months.
25It was a bright summer day but under the canopy of leaves it was cool and quiet and twilight.
26[There was no sound but his footsteps, his breathing.][]
27Instead of an axe, his right hand clutched his notebook.
28His left was in his pocket.
29A pencil perched behind his ear.
30
31He walked aimlessly until coming over a short rise he saw a stump.
32He recognized his handiwork in the way the stump made a kind of chair back---flat until the axe had gone through far enough, then a frayed edge like a torn page.
33Paul walked over to the stump and sat down.
34
35He looked up and tried to find a pattern in the placement of the trees.
36There was none.
37They grew randomly, beginning nowhere and ending in the same place.
38[A squirrel][] ran down one and up another for no reason.
39He opened his notebook and took his pencil from his ear but could think of nothing to write.
40
41A crow called hoarsely to another, something important.
42Paul looked up but could not see the black bird in the [leaves of the trees][].
43He looked back down to the cream-colored pages of his notebook.
44
45He was surprised that he'd written _YOU CANNOT DISCOVER ART_.
46
47[There was no sound but his footsteps, his breathing.]: music-433.html
48[A squirrel]: squirrel.html
49[leaves of the trees]: death-zone.html