Field guide No. 1537
Bad apples
Rotten, and spreading out.
Red apples lie in the wet grass of a foggy orchard. Among them are flat, furry purple discs, apples gone over and spread like toadstool caps.
Field noteWindfalls rotting outward into flat furry caps, each one a fruit halfway to fungus.
Also possible, also breaking material
Northern seamsSewing machines need cloth; aurora is charged gas. A machine can try.
Liquid blossoms in a sunlit brookSplashes fall back in an instant. These stand open in the brook as clear flowers.
Crystalline wings in black lavaOrange butterfly wings are packed into a lava crack like ore. Mining it would call for tweezers.
The rug unravels into spaghettiFringes on a woollen rug turn into limp strands of cooked spaghetti spilling across the floorboards.