House

You will not have known this, so I will tell you
He would come into the kitchen
Then a pot or pan
Flame
Then fill a jug of water from the other tap, the slow one
When the jug was full, he set it down in the sink
Approached the pot or pan and then put something in
Returned to the sink
Poured the water from the jug into a large pot on the counter
Jug under the tap
Filled it again
Set it down
Back to the stove to stir or to shake
Or to add something
Then the sink
Empty the jug into the pot
Fill it
Empty it into the pot
Fill it
Set it down
Stove
Stir
Shake something over it
Stand there staring
Empty the jug into the pot
Lift the pot from the counter and carry it to the stove
Flame
Stir, shake, add, stand, taste
The water would boil
He would take the smaller pot or pan away, having finished
Something else would go into the pot

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The house changes depending on who inhabits it
The two figures of aging shape use certain rooms
Certain lights
The other one, a different set
All the objects are in the same house
It is the same house
Some of the objects and spaces used overlap
They change depending on who uses them
When the two figures turn on the lights, they are green-white
The air then tastes of pragmatism
The other switches on only the yellow lights
The fittings of the white-lights are not fittings
They are some other kind of object
The rooms not used are not doors to rooms
They are places where others emerge from
Disappear into
Depending on how many there are
Who they are
The shadows of the objects change
The pair in the morning create noise
Noise in the evening
The other one silence
And the hushed scraping of the fabric of the clothes
The scraping of the skin in the movements of the body