Stone: Green onyx
The air is warm
Clarity: transparent to semi-transparent
Peacock pearls on lever backs ear wires
The shallow pools hold secrets
River Rocks yellow Stone: Green onyxSmoothed by water, sand, and time, they cover the riverbed like a rainbow of pearls. Looking out onto the river, the bright sun shines down and turns waves into glitter along the far shore. Sand, grass, and silt mix with cool water in eddies and bends. Reds, pinks, blues, purples, greens, greys, and white, banded and solid, made from layers of earth built up and pressed over time until they turned to shale and sandstone. Broken by tectonic plates,