What is a nature writer?
a study in three parts
1.
A pale pink, crinkled chunk of limestone the size of a small melon. A Mexican banded quartzite. Pyramidal chatoyant tiger’s eye. Citrine and quartz cluster. A nugget of pyrite. Two stones carved and bound. A Griffon vulture feather. Two owl feathers. A plaster cast stag beetle. Small dish with a sgraffito crow. Chock of wood with a beeswax candle plac…