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      September 25, 2015OfferingArnold Perrin

      Photo by Howard R. Debs. Used by permission, Frederick County Division of Parks and Recreation. “Offering” was written by Arnold Perrin for Rattle’s Ekphrastic Challenge, August 2015, and selected as the Editor’s Choice winner.
      The stick ladder leads
      to the other dimension
      where the hand winch lifts
      January
      out of the empty pit.
      The cold rope hums
      as the last block is placed
      on the altar of August.

      from Ekphrastic Challenge

      Comment from the editor on this selection

      “In just eight lines this little poem seems to honor and conjure the ghosts of what the ice house used to mean—both winter itself as a time capsule, and a last prayer for the end of summer’s heat. It was a sentiment many poems tried to capture, but none as concisely or musically.”

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