Field guide No. 844
Clothesline of empty silhouettes
Laundry with nothing to wear
A large sheet hangs from a clothesline, its cut-out openings shaped like empty garments. The wash has come back as absences.
Field noteA sheet hangs with garment-shaped gaps cut through it. Laundry has returned without the clothes.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
Sunlit burrows beneath red clayBurrows riddle a red clay bank so thoroughly that clear sky and clouds show through every tunnel.
The missing guestTables can be built round a gap. Laying for whoever made it is etiquette, not metaphysics.
The mitten’s hidden summerA mitten can lie in wildflowers under a night sky. The flowers are not a date.
Red mortar, blue iceRed brickwork runs through a wall of blue glacier ice. The building has found an unusual basement.