Field guide No. 1074
Ancient stone, modern tire imprints
Older than the road it records.
Layered grey rock slabs on a rocky hillside carry the clear herringbone treads of tyres across their faces. Geologists would like a word with whoever parked here.
Field noteHerringbone tyre treads are pressed into layered slabs of rock. Geologists want a word with the driver.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Black birds make an impossible turnRooks stream across the sky in a line, then turn a right angle. Nobody told the birds about curves.
Floating pollen flower among hollow bloomsPollen drifts as loose dust; here enough of it holds the shape of a daisy floating above its neighbours.
Orb weaver’s rainbow silkSilk can glint in colours. Half a web lit as a full spectrum is a prism with legs.
Square ringed red onionOnions grow in rounds. This one grew in nested squares, and it is still an onion.