Field guide No. 440
Cyclamen blooms beneath the soil
Flowering where nobody looks.
A cutaway of a grassy bank shows pink cyclamen flowering inside the soil, in little hollows among the roots, while the grass above has nothing. The show is downstairs.
Field noteFlowers open to the light for the bees. These bloom in the dark, for the worms.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Shell serviceConches have long been held to the ear. Wiring one up is easy; floating it is the hard part.
Overtime for the oceanFans make wind and wind makes waves. Neat rows to the horizon is the overtime physics won’t pay.
Dunes defying gravityLoose sand slumps to its angle of repose. These walls ignore the angle entirely.
Return to sender: upward rainRain falls once and stays fallen. These drops leave the pond again and head back to the leaf.