stickpin

My first professionally published work appeared in Ms., and I still have a stickpin with the magazine’s logo — remember stickpins and how popular they were in the ’80s?

As a further token of their host’s esteem, each male guest also received a gold watch and a diamond stickpin.

In her hands, stickpins, drinking straws and plastic foam cups blossom into thrilling biomorphic forms.

This man was wearing an immaculate white suit, a pale blue shirt and a yellow satin tie with a bright stickpin.

An old burn alongside the river has a spare, stickpin geometry best seen in winter, the black charred trees pricking fresh snow.