Field guide No. 1445
Goosebumped glass in an empty greenhouse
Somebody close the door
Every pane in an empty greenhouse is swollen with clear bubbles like gooseflesh. The glass has caught a chill.
Field noteGlass is rigid once it cools, but these panes have raised bubbles like skin in a draught.
Also possible, also breaking category
The raven’s spoon graveyardPlates and spoons are tableware, not memorials. A cemetery for them is a category slip.
Beyond measureA measuring tape curls up the wall like a ramp. The result exceeds its instrument.
Starlings turning into inkThe flock frays into one loop of black ink. Somebody is drafting, and the birds are the first sketch.
Room to expandBellows-shaped buildings are a structural engineer’s problem, not a philosopher’s.