Day 302 of 2025
“Liquid Mirrors: Where Meetings Dissolve into Home”
coffee, n.
1. A dark liquid used to scry the architecture of one's own day.
2. The last shared language between fluorescent and domestic light.
3. A surface tension mistaken for stillness; in fact, a cartography of every person spoken to since morning.
4. The pause that occurs not between events but through them, the way a hinge belongs to both the door and the frame.
5. Archaic: a beverage.