Jungle

Field guide No. 1427

A cut bank of dark earth shows tangled tree roots with closed eyelids along them. Something under the field is having a lie-in.

Closed eye roots in dark soil

The roots are sleeping in

A cut bank of dark earth shows tangled tree roots with closed eyelids along them. Something under the field is having a lie-in.

Field noteRoots sense water and gravity but never needed eyelids, and these have them, shut, every few inches.

Specimen
No. 1427
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Category
Where it doesn’t exist
A cut bank of dark field soil.
Nearest existing relative
A potato’s eyes.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking category