Field guide No. 543
Clouds pressed into a coral towel
Lying down on the weather.
A coral beach towel on the sand has clouds pressed up through it in raised terry, with sunglasses beside them reflecting a blue sky. The forecast is cushioned.
Field noteTowels pick up sand, not weather. This one has whole clouds raised in its terry.
Also possible, also breaking material
Soft folds in river stonesGranite creased where the boulders press, like dough left to prove. Hard stone has gone tender.
The curtain's missing halfOne curtain pink throughout, one pink then black below. Dye stops somewhere; here it stops at a precise line.
Frayed copper lightning over a prairieLightning is a channel of hot air, but this bolt snapped in two and shows bare copper strands.
Wax transformer substation at midnightTransformers are steel and oil. Built in wax with lit wicks, they’d melt at the first load.