Field guide No. 1307
Hail filled umbrella in a lost property room
Handed in, still weather.
An umbrella sits upside down on the floor of a lost property room, filled with hailstones, icicles hanging from every rib. Nobody has come to claim it.
Field noteUmbrella turned bowl-side up and heaped with hailstones indoors, icicles on every rib.
Also possible, also breaking physics
A featherweight decisionAnvils do not float. Tying one down is sensible; the floating is physics’ oversight.
Summer dust devils on frozen lakeDust devils need hot ground to rise from. These whirl sand across cracked lake ice.
Dew suspended beneath burgundy leavesWater drops hang above a stony streambed. The morning left its glassware outside.
Upside down salamander beneath the puddleAn orange salamander clings under the water surface. Surface tension is strong, not that strong; the story holds up.