Dawn’s Breath earrings They needed little — just

They needed little — just a pocket to carry what mattered: a petal plucked at dawn

Weight distribution shifts off-centre

Variation expected in degree of curl and spacing once set

What was promised

for it was never the same twice

Dawn’s Breath earrings They needed little — justThey said the sky spoke only to those who moved softly. She was one of them rising before the sun, walking where the mist still clung to the earth. On one such morning, at the place where the river thinned to a silver thread, she found it: a drop of something that was not water, hanging from a strand finer than any spiders silk. It caught the first light and turned it blue, like a secret promise. She gathered it not with hands, but with breath and