Ember

Howley 15 Michael Howley Ember Yesterday I was shown newly arrived in the post from Lebanon a plant fossil imbedded in a thin slab of whitish stone prised it was said from a Cretaceous layer at least sixty-five million years old the delicate leaf-veins clearly visible under low magnification the stem intact most stunning survival of all the color intensified by the stone frame watercolor-shaded to the most delicate of hues from a first autumn. ...