Field guide No. 1540
Branching out
A river that grew a crown
A bare dead tree on a floodplain where water pours down the trunk from the branches and spreads out through its roots. The tree is draining the sky.
Field noteRivers branch like trees from above; this tree carries the river down its own bark.
Also possible, also breaking material
The radiator’s soft landingOak that sags like a mattress is wood forgetting itself. Heavy radiators on soft floors are no paradox.
Paper plane, folding brick wallBrick creases like paper here, and paper hits like brick. They swapped jobs on impact.
Tangled rainbow signal on the rooftopA dish spills rainbow cables across the roof. The signal arrived in full colour and all at once.
Stone bodied crab on a hollow pebble beachCrabs moult and leave empty casts. Here the casts are pebbles, and they line the beach.