OfferingBy Rattle / September 25, 2015 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.