Field guide No. 1545
Cold shoulder
Warm inside, apparently
An iceberg sits in a dark sea at dusk with an arched cave in its side glowing furnace orange. The light spills on the water and the ice does not melt.
Field noteIceberg holds a furnace glow in its arch and doesn’t melt a drop.
Also possible, also breaking material
Clouds pressed into a coral towelTowels pick up sand, not weather. This one has whole clouds raised in its terry.
Ash flames bend without fireGrey ash holds the curl of flames above charred logs. All the fire, minus the heat.
Prismatic stream across the salt marshStream stands up out of the marsh as a clear block, square-edged and winding.
TurnoverPloughed earth rolls up like surf, turf on the inside and roots for spray.