The ferns were the worst. Or the best. They uncurled like the green tongues of sleeping giants, each spiral a labyrinth I could fall into. When I blinked, the afterimage wasn't a blob of light—it was the memory of photosynthesis. The shadow of the tree was not darkness; it was the tree’s other half, resting.
I tried to touch a blade of grass. My fingers passed through it. Or rather, it passed through me . I was the ghost. The plants were the anchors: solid, ancient, drunk on their own steady growth. My human dizziness was just a poor imitation of their stillness. grogue visão das plantas
The sun had not just set; it had melted . It dripped down through the canopy in thick, amber rivulets, staining the ferns the color of old honey. That was the first sign that my vision belonged to the —not the drunkenness of wine, but the dizzy intoxication of chlorophyll. The ferns were the worst
I lay down in the undergrowth, letting the green fever take my sight completely. The world became a single, unfocused, beautiful blur of veins and petals. When I blinked, the afterimage wasn't a blob
I knelt in the moss. The moss breathed back.
Each leaf was no longer a surface, but a window . I saw the slow, stubborn heartbeat of the philodendron. I saw the xylem as a frantic subway of light. The orchid on the branch was not a flower; it was a mouth, silently screaming a color that didn't exist yesterday—a purple so deep it had weight, pressing on my sternum.
And for the first time, I saw clearly.