Tablecloth

Damask. The table stays; the meals pass over it. The cloth says what it was for.

Front

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76 warp threads, 37 weft picksPoint at a crossing, or tap it, to lift the thread on top and read everything it carries, the hidden part too.

Warp satin for the figure, weft satin for the ground.

Warp, in indigo: the table

Oak, four leaves, one of them warped. A burn ring on the window side where the pan went down. A knife line where the bread was always cut. The drawer that sticks in August. It was in this kitchen before the kitchen was a kitchen. It will be carried out sideways.

Weft, in weld: what was served on it

Sunday the soup. Monday whatever was left. A birthday with the wrong number of candles because we ran out. The will, read aloud, and the shouting after. Fractions, homework, a child in tears over sevenths. Eleven years the dog under it. Then no dog. Bread, always.

On the structure

Damask is figured by contrast: the same two yarns, bound warp-up in the figure and weft-up in the ground. Turn the cloth over and the word is still there, in negative.

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