Field guide No. 1121
Giant shark tooth erupting from the earth
Something up there bites back.
A serrated white tooth the size of a boulder tips out of a green hillside, heaving clods of earth aside, with a lake and soft hills behind it. The grass has been told it is a coastline now.
Field noteA boulder-sized tooth tips out of a hillside; something up there bites back, though nothing here denies it.
Also possible, also breaking scale
Tiny drum machine drives colossal pistonsDrum machines drive speakers. This little one runs a hall of giant pistons on its beat.
Oversized black spores in autumn leavesA huge cracked puffball spills sooty spheres across leaf litter; puffballs, with a long reach.
Growing proseFlower beds take root in any trough. Tiny gardeners are a model-railway habit.
Night shift at the staplerDiners already come shaped like coffee pots and hot dogs. A stapler was only a matter of time.