My host began by lecturing

            About Murano glass and art,

            The trick of using bronze and gold

            To throw an image back

            More splendid than the one

            Received

            I hastened home and

            Giddy with my purchase propped

            The prize beside our bed

            Supposing what would work for one

            Could work for two

            Instead the night wore on

            And all I saw was

            Merely a lagoon