"The Offering" by James Laughlin:

He was reaching out to her
offering the best of his

old beaten-up furniture
from the rooms where so

many disappointments had
been enacted so many ri-

diculous little comedies
of frustration and folly

yes it would all be dif-
ferent now (he promised

her that) because they
would be her things too.

(From The Bird of Endless Time (Copper Canyon Press, 1989). Reprinted with permission of the Estate of James Laughlin. Photo by Flickr user Timm Suess)