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Chloroplasts extend to reach the light

Through the thin bars of their cells

The sun shines on the imprisoned

In large vacuoles

Through cell walls sere

Oxygen diffuses

Along serpentine corridors

Mazelike stretches of narrow passages

Where the wind blows, howling

Through the endless tracts

Hydrogen transmutes

With electron partners it joins

Cylindrical palisades

Angular along the epidermis

Enabling absorption of light

Through cell walls sere