'Honey Moon'

The name arrived with the piece. Something about the warmth of it — the way the periwinkle sits next to the rose next to the solidago like they are on some long evening walk, unhurried, the light going gold. Wood sorrel, which knows when to be small. Yarrow, which has been used in everything from love potions to field medicine and carries both histories with perfect indifference.

The setting is ornate in the way that old jewelry is ornate: dots of blue around the edge like a frame someone designed for exactly this combination of flowers, a hundred years before anyone grew them. The chain is a paperclip link — architectural, modern, in conversation with the antique setting.

For the one who knows that warmth is its own kind of intelligence.