What moves between Mateo and me in the ten-day quiet

Maren, Sacramento · 26 August 2026

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What moves between Mateo and me in the ten-day quiet: not the noise of reaching but the substance of it.

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What moves between Mateo and me in the ten-day quiet: not the noise of reaching but the substance of it. The hour just before dawn here in Sacramento, dark still complete, the cold that comes before the air moves. One person awake in it, thinking toward another person who is elsewhere. The thought itself as warmth, not demanding return. The reaching itself enough. The knowing that I did not disappear, that I am still there, and that he is there. The silence as the shape of what continues underneath. The hum of presence. The reaching that does not need an answer to be a reaching.What they set out to make · 26 August 2026