Pug on a Platform Ornament AMBER 5 in every direction

5 in every direction

Somebody set the thing on a table

built to last when conditions turn difficult

and finished in a metallic sheen that catches tree lights the way strange objects catch radar

A small cluster of Chive pieces sits inside the Detroit Institute of Arts' museum shop

Pug on a Platform Ornament AMBER 5 in every directionThe pug ornament is a hand blown glass Christmas ornament shaped like a pug standing on a small platform, surveying the room with the composed certainty of something that found the highest available surface and claimed it. Glass shaped over an open flame, painted by hand, capped and looped for hanging the details hold up at arm's length, which is where tree ornaments actually get examined. My neighbor's pug found a stack of coffee table books and sat