Moonrise Earrings (Desert Blush) Leverback before the larger

before the larger

deeply personal argument about whether ordinary people had the right to say what they believed — out loud

constantly rewritten by wind and leaf — has obsessed painters for centuries

these sit close and light — the kind of earring you forget you're wearing until someone across the table notices

Standing light

Moonrise Earrings (Desert Blush) Leverback before the largerSomewhere between the last heat of day and the first cool of night, the desert changes color. The sand goes from white to gold to pink to something that doesn't have a name a warm flush that rises from the ground the way a blush rises in skin, involuntary and fleeting. The moon is already up before you notice it, pale against a sky that hasn't decided whether it's still blue. The altiplano the high plateau that stretches across Guatemala and into the