Field guide No. 976
Crimson ribbon, impossible asphalt
A red ribbon opens the road
A narrow red strip snakes through a cracked parking lot. The road has been unstitched.
Field noteA red strip snakes through cracked pavement. The road has been unstitched.
Also possible, also breaking material
Ironing crumpled aluminumFoil can be smoothed, not turned into a mirror-thick plate. The iron added metal somewhere.
Paper thin egg beside its twinEggshell flattened without a crack has stopped behaving like eggshell. The twin is a proper egg about it.
Silence erases the foamOne wall of spiked foam has smoothed to a cloud-shaped blank. The quiet ate the acoustics.
Waterwheel defying the droughtPaddles on the mill wheel each cradle a solid chunk of clear water though the stone race is bone dry.