Sword of the forest,
Ponderosa branch
Before you become the duff that softens
Footfalls and pawpads
You have had rivers carved into your wood
By pine beetles and your bark has peeled
Off under claws and wind.
You have been broken and tumbled,
Stripped and sun-bleached,
A few hard footsteps away from shattering.
Here - in this half-gone form after so much has consumed and worn you - is your beauty to me: you endure!
You make a scimitar out of aging!
You show me the way forward as my breasts sag and my skin crepes -
This is beauty!
This is power!
This, too is LIFE!!!

Cast ponderosa branch (heavy!)

Rainbow Coral Sunstone cabbed by me.
18 inch thick supple rounded 3.1 mm box-style sterling chain.
Lobster clasp.

Built with tender love and prayer in the Cascades of Oregon!

Xoxo
Allison