'Field Study No. 1'

Field botanists used to press specimens into the pages of their notebooks on the same day they found them — while the color was still vivid, before memory could edit the detail. These are the specimens from that kind of walk.

Moss and pennycress and hydrangea in a brass rectangle the size of a notebook margin. Everything here was growing in the same field at the same moment. The observation is complete.

This pendant is for the woman who has always paid attention.