The Winter Barn Owl & Amber Neckace rhodolite Apart 9f a handmade toggle

Apart 9f a handmade toggle clasp

Nice organic base adorned with intricate branch and the starry sky

This time blue talisman

BY JOY HARJO

High up in the apple tree climbing I go

The Winter Barn Owl & Amber Neckace rhodolite Apart 9f a handmade toggleTvTHE BARN OWL In late summer I feel the chill again the first marauding from the high plateau I can sense the teeth in everything and claws under rock and ti tree biting down in the dry sand of the creekbed I find the skeleton of a barn owl and snap off its skull with a twist of my thumb and forefinger I string it with a length of fishing line and for days I wear it around my neck dreaming at night of the crack of lizard bones the death cries of