![By Viviane Sassen](https://theoffingmag.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/red-wood_N35P5KWFZV.jpeg)
If only you could corner bad luck,
capture its cosmic willingness
to rule the unruly, palm its prickly
hide for pleasure before using it
like a cueball. Something to smash.
If only you could invent a new taxidermy
for faith, decorate blank walls with worms
fished from the rotten jawbones
of its iconography. Talk about
a conversation piece.