Amber Fossil

Rough sawdust grits beneath fingernails as the varnish peels away, uncovering a prehistoric insect suspended in a translucent knot of resin. This tiny prisoner remains trapped within liquid obsidian ripples, its frozen struggle mapping an ancient trajectory through deep time. To touch this fossil is to merge with the blunt edge where every grain terminates into a dense knot, acknowledging that even heavy pressure leaves smudged charcoal fingerprints pressed into soft wax.