Summer's Echo Earrings Eye She carried test tubes of

She carried test tubes of radium in her pockets

without permission from the powerful

There is no synthetic substitute that comes close

lived with — not preserved behind glass

and jewelers hammered it into brooches meant to blur the line between ornament and organism

Summer's Echo Earrings Eye She carried test tubes ofThere's a moment in late August when the light changes. Not dramatically not the way it does at sunset but quietly, in the middle of an ordinary afternoon. The gold gets softer. The shadows stretch a half inch longer. And everything you look at seems to carry the memory of the whole season in it, like the warmth is already turning into something you'll miss. That particular quality of light the kind that makes a field of wildflowers look like a