specimen 00 · faint vine

undo.quest

A narrow footpath for stepping backward without pretending the footprint was never there.

specimen 01 · the mark

the mark

I should not have turned here. The loam keeps the sentence soft until it can be lifted.

specimen 02 · the root

A broken key remembers the door before the snap. Hold still: the thorn is unhooking itself.

specimen 03 · the reversal

Spores gather around the crossed-out path, then rewind into a seed pod. The mistake becomes compost, not a cage.

specimen 04 · the new sprout

Only a small green yes remains: a fresh shoot rising from the erased print while the vine goes dim.

ctrl-z, but written in moss