The Back of the Cloth

Long distance

Plain weave. Two halves of a phone call; each side of the cloth hears half.

Front

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34 warp threads, 22 weft picksPoint at a crossing, or tap it, to lift the thread on top and read everything it carries, the hidden part too.

Over one, under one. Each text shows exactly half of itself.

Warp, in madder: the one who stayed

The roses came back. The gate still wants your shoulder. Your room is as you left it, which means I go in and dust round the shape of you and come out again.

Weft, in undyed: the one who left

The flat is small and the shop does not know my name yet. I walk home the long way so I have something to tell you. It is raining here too. I think it is the same rain.

On the structure

Plain weave is the strictest structure: over one, under one. Neither voice is heard whole on either face. What the front drops, the back keeps.

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