the room is empty. the chrome is not. every panel a held breath, every seam a careful scalpel mark, every silence pressed into platinum. gunsul receives. gunsul does not greet. 꽃

fabrication. bonded chrome jersey. cold-welded seam. the cloth refuses to drape; it holds its own architecture. the mannequin is invisible because the garment was never wearing one. 꽃

seam. the seam is a sentence written by a knife. it does not stitch the fabric so much as separate it from itself, then politely insist they remain neighbors despite the difference. 꽃

empty. a hex without a garment is not a missing garment. it is the room before anyone arrives, the breath before the syllable, the cool air around a piece of metal that has been left out in the rain. 꽃

cold-pressed. the chrome is not cold because it lacks warmth. it is cold because it has refused to share what it has. there is a difference. you can feel it in the second between touch and remembering. 꽃