Field guide No. 948
Agate layers unfurl across a charcoal bench
A stone opens into layers
A green-banded agate spills thin mineral layers across a charcoal workbench. The specimen has overrun its allotted square footage.
Field noteAn agate spills thin mineral layers across a workbench. The specimen has exceeded its allotment.
Also possible, also breaking scale
The crab’s giant molted shellA shed shell dwarfs the crab that climbed out of it. Outgrown, and left on the premises.
Office hoursRamps can be any shape you can weld. Staplers are a reasonable one.
Someone has been hereAnything pressed into snow leaves its shape. A fern this size is the improbable part.
Bread dough breaking through asphaltDough rises, given warmth and time. Under a crossroads it has had both and lifted the tarmac clean off.