Ad Hoc Fiction

Mrs King
I have forgotten the five kingdoms of the classification system and what multicellular organisms consist of and where chlorophyll is found and how glucose is made and what xylem tissue delivers and what phloem tissue does and what happens in spongy mesophyll or stomata or palisades but I will always remember Mrs King tucking her hair behind her ears and choosing a chalk and drawing a broad bean on the board with its root burying downwards and its shoot growing upwards in one unbroken line.