the price on the coaster
A circle remembers every glass set down before the courage arrived.
값: value, price, cost — poured low after midnight.
A circle remembers every glass set down before the courage arrived.
The ledger keeps neat columns for messy exchanges: cab fare, apology, a seat saved in the dark.
Names fade first. The shape of waiting stays silvered behind the bottles.
Amber warms the glass; rose warms the cheek; olive ink records the debt.
No one leaves even. Someone pays in coins, someone pays by remembering.