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               the weight before
            the weight was weighed
          pressed into the table where
        no table had been set and left
       a mark that wasn't there until
      you looked away and then it was
     the only thing         the room
    had ever held              a ring
   of pressure where             the glass
  had been but wasn't           set down
 by someone who                hadn't
arrived yet                   standing
in the kitchen    they would
build next year    out of wood
they hadn't     cut from trees
that were     still seeds when
the mark   appeared and now
the glass  sits exactly on
the ring  as if the table
knew the weight before the
glass  existed before the
water  filled it before
the rain had fallen
before the cloud
had gathered
before the
ocean
gave
it
up
.
Four Gates Corp.