STORY limbs of the tree gone astray below now part of a structured ground-- "understory" readable as an organized whole whose parts briars seedlings foot-high plants push past fallen leaves and crossed sticks relentless the new life "inhabits the understory" lives in a tale long abandoned and nearly forgotten how the tree of life grew heavy with fruit and old could no longer grab at heaven but shaken by storms fell to earth and now assembles itself over again it took only the need and but small cunning to send its scattered parts plunging upward again rise slower than fall but as certain
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