Field guide No. 356
Emerald frog’s concentric dew chorus
Singing in water droplets.
A small green frog on a red leaf puffs out its throat, and its call leaves its mouth as widening rings of dew drops in the air. The rainforest is listening.
Field noteCalls are sound; dew is water. A croak arriving as droplets swaps one for the other.
Also possible, also breaking category
Last stop, asparagusTowers are tall, green and tapered when architects allow it. Asparagus has been doing it for free.
Cracked eggshell bag, golden yolkA paper bag printed with speckles holds a yolk badly but coherently. Packaging, misjudged.
Ancient sandstone zipper reveals hidden jungleCliffs crack; they don’t fasten. A zip in rock is a fastening where a fault should be.
The sleeping hill’s closed eyeHills are landforms, not faces. One with an eyelid is a landscape doing an animal’s job.