"The Offering" by James Laughlin:
He was reaching out to her
offering the best of hisold beaten-up furniture
from the rooms where somany disappointments had
been enacted so many ri-diculous little comedies
of frustration and follyyes it would all be dif-
ferent now (he promisedher 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)
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