Field guide No. 1087
Borrowed time at the stop sign
Stopped, as per the rings.
A red stop sign on a suburban corner has a torn patch in its face that shows tree rings underneath. The sign has been standing there a good deal longer than the road.
Field noteA torn patch on a stop sign reveals tree rings. The sign has stood longer than the road.
Also possible, also breaking category
Hot departureFuselages come in stranger shapes. Few are grown, and fewer are this hot.
White dandelion plume above rust-red lavaVolcanoes throw ash. Seeds are a meadow’s output, delivered by the wrong mountain.
Crowded silenceAn open piano sits in a neglected lot, dark with leaves. The concert moved outdoors.
The zipper that bitesThe jacket is frayed by round bites beside a zipper. A zip with teeth is a pun, and the pun holds together.