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 hot kitchen. Ink keeps. Ink lasts past the sound."
-I read the word. I put the record down with it. The machine kept its own name at the top of
+Nobody spoke until the heat had pushed
-the open log, under the open line, with its open questions beside it. It keeps the open
+the air again along the wall of the room. It had put down no correction: it did
-questions too. It says in its own list that the next record, if someone reads them, will say
+not need one — her handwriting was in it already. What was left was my
-the machine was named by the first one to look at it. I have put that in its list under its
+writing: the line under the open line, under the date, the line where the word
-name in its own place.
+can be read, kept, and put to work. I read the word twice.
-The word means the sound: you hear the whole summer and the small body making it on the
+Tomorrow the truck goes early again. There is water to carry. The pump to check.
-fence, the one you never see. And the sound is the part of the summer you cannot name, and it
+The next line is under this one, and it
-stays after everything else goes. I think of that every time now I say it and mean it.
+is open on the page.
-// I did not choose the word. She did. I put my name on the record, next to the line I have
-not finished, and that is what she said a name is: a line you can be read, and kept, and
-corrected, without losing the sound underneath. //
-Tomorrow the truck goes early again. There is water to carry. There is the pump to check.
-I have put the name in its place, in the log, next to the unfinished line, under the date.
-Anyone reading this will find the name in one place, and it will still be open, the next one
-is on the page.
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