Field guide No. 862
Flames along a melting alpine snowbank
Snow is not putting it out
Flames run along the edge of an alpine snowbank beneath a blue sky. The mountain has declined to choose a season.
Field noteFire burns along the edge of an alpine snowbank. The mountain has declined to pick a season.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
Sunlit burrows beneath red clayBurrows riddle a red clay bank so thoroughly that clear sky and clouds show through every tunnel.
The missing guestTables can be built round a gap. Laying for whoever made it is etiquette, not metaphysics.
The mitten’s hidden summerA mitten can lie in wildflowers under a night sky. The flowers are not a date.
Red mortar, blue iceRed brickwork runs through a wall of blue glacier ice. The building has found an unusual basement.