Crossword-Solution: HOLDTHE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

O, to take what we love inside, to carry within us an orchard, to eatnot only the skin, but the shade, not only the sugar, but the days, to holdthe fruit in our hands, adore it, then bite intothe round jubilance of peach. There are days we liveas if death were nowherein the background; from joyto joy to joy, from wing to wing, from blossom to blossom toimpossible blossom, to sweet impossible blossom.

The handless clock trying to holdthe hour of death, saltin the last mouthful of water. The windows opaque with silence, silence stagnating in the wineglass.