Field guide No. 1287
Dandelion seeds connect sky and soil
Everything is attached to the parent.
A dandelion clock in a weedy plot trails fine threads from its seeds to each of the seedlings already sprouting around it. Nobody leaves home completely.
Field noteSeedheads trail threads from the clock down to each seedling, like a maypole.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Spare breathPruned bramble tips exhale small clouds in the frost. The bush is warm and not telling anyone.
Soft impactChrome splashing at a feather’s touch is a materials failure, not a contradiction.
The quiet triangle beyond the wavesSpeakers add noise to a storm. This one subtracts it, and a long triangle of sea lies flat.
The pillow that bent steelA hydraulic press bends a steel plate around a white pillow. The cushion has been promoted beyond its job.