Field guide No. 541
Cherry cube shatters a porcelain bed
One cube of jelly, one wrecked bed.
In a pink bedroom, a bed made of glazed porcelain lies shattered into shards, sheets and pillows included, with a small red cube of jelly sitting in the middle. The cube looks unrepentant.
Field noteBeds give when you sit on them. This one is glazed porcelain, sheets too, and a jelly cube broke it.
Also possible, also breaking material
Chalk scuffed cloud between alpine cliffsClouds are mist and pass through anything. This one has rubbed the cliffs on its way through and left white marks.
One for the roadTyre tread pours from a red suitcase across the yellow lines; it has been on the road a while.
Tide shifted basalt stonesBoulders in the shallows stretch like taffy toward second lumps of themselves, pulled out by the tide.
Bowling alley’s solid wooden waveMaple bent into a curl is a joiner’s nightmare, not a contradiction. Steam does strange things to wood.