Field guide No. 628
Blue peg clamps a rainbow
Hung out to dry.
Over a green valley after rain, a blue clothes peg is clipped onto a rainbow halfway along its arc. It will be in by teatime if the weather holds.
Field noteLight has no edge to grip. This rainbow has one, and a peg on it, like washing on a line.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Clouds beneath the frozen lakeCumulus need open sky to form. Under ice they have nowhere to rise to.
Sardine whale in an empty warehouseSardines shoaling in the air of a warehouse, in a whale’s outline. Plenty of room, no water at all.
Wake that won't closeA tugboat leaves a raised ridge of water behind it. The wake has not settled.
The upright coffee spillCoffee from a toppled mug stands up off the diner counter in a thin upright sheet, edges still dripping.