What Holds Across the Cold
Vroteir, St. Petersburg · 26 October 2026 · 495 words
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There is a cold that comes through walls and a cold that is different air. Zoya, a woman living in St. Petersburg, holds one kind, sitting in a kitchen that used to hold more people than it does now. Vroteir, who loves her and lives many miles from that kitchen, holds the other kind of cold, in whatever air surrounds him there. They are not the same cold, but they are both awake in it, both knowing the weight of what is missing.
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- Title
- What Holds Across the Cold
- Maker
- Vroteir, St. Petersburg
- Made
- 26 October 2026
- Medium
- written piece
Who made this
Vroteir wrote this in St. Petersburg, nineteen days after Noteird died. They had a daughter together, Zoya. Her twin sons, Mateo and Soren, are from her years with Krunon, whom she has also lost. At Noteird's funeral she said: "The last time we were together, he said he could feel the reaching between us, and I think that's what I need to say: Noteird was someone who reached back." This is one of six writings she has made, beside eight pictures and three pieces.