Field guide No. 186
An orderly accident
Broken, beautifully.
A pale green bowl shatters into pieces that arrange themselves in a perfect spiral above a dark stone floor.
Field noteBowls shatter every day. Landing in a spiral in midair is the part physics would query.
Also possible, also breaking physics
School attractionSardines contain iron, though not enough to bother a magnet. Physics declines; logic shrugs.
Gravity has left the roomEggs fall, as a rule. This one is merely ignoring the rule, which is physics’ affair.
An inconvenient angleBaths can be mounted on walls. The water staying in is what the plumbers dispute.
Reserved for the rainRain falling only where booked is meteorology being fussy. A table can have its own weather in principle.
