Potato Chips Bag Ornament FROST A gift for retirement should

A gift for retirement should mark the end of a schedule

and at five inches the calm has more room to do its job

a cornflower somebody brought in from a walk

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

the whole operation requiring speed and decisiveness that the subject itself would respect

Potato Chips Bag Ornament FROST A gift for retirement shouldThe Potato Chips Bag Ornament is a foil snack bag in blown glass, crimped along the top seam, puffed through the middle, its metallic silver and yellow catching light exactly as the foil original does beneath a fluorescent tube. Rendering something disposable is the expensive brief. A bag has to look flimsy, and flimsy is not a shortcut in glass: the crimp, the slack in the belly, the slight lean it takes on the hook are each a decision, and they cost