Field guide No. 091
Field notes
Each page a terrace.
An old notebook opens into green rice terraces climbing a misty valley, with farmers working the pages.
Field noteTerraces are carved hillsides; pages are carved trees. Read generously, it is a sculpture of a farm.
Also possible, also breaking category
Deep purpleHollow it, seal it, add a periscope. Vegetables lack ambition, not buoyancy.
Proof of purchaseOnion layers do peel in ribbons. Reading one as a receipt is the onion’s own interpretation.
The zebra’s unfinished stripesStripes are pigment, not ribbon, so the spool is a category slip. The half-zebra is otherwise sound.
Berry far awayDomes are domes; a red one with seeds would still track stars. Planning would object first.