This was meant to be mine

We live in a little house, at least little for the six of us.

I also have a compulsion for collecting furniture

that needs refinishing and not getting around to it.

For that reason I try to resist new items --

but not this little spindly magazine rack.

When the thrift shop vendor said it was $2

and that is had been sitting in the back room for years, 

I knew it was just waiting for me.

For now I will just clean it up with some lemon oil

and maybe I will eventually paint it along with the other pieces.

Now, we finally have one place to hold library books.