Jungle

Field guide No. 431

On a forest floor of fallen leaves, three neat single-file lines of leaves curve up to the roots of an old tree. They appear to be waiting their turn.

Autumn leaves queue beneath ancient roots

Please wait to be composted.

On a forest floor of fallen leaves, three neat single-file lines of leaves curve up to the roots of an old tree. They appear to be waiting their turn.

Field noteLeaves land where the wind drops them. These have formed orderly queues, which wind never manages.

Specimen
No. 431
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Physics
Where it doesn’t exist
An old forest floor, late autumn.
Nearest existing relative
Fallen leaves.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking physics