Field guide No. 310
Jigsaw salt pan’s missing piece
Someone kept one piece.
A white salt flat cracked into giant jigsaw pieces, with one piece missing to show the red earth underneath. Tyre tracks lead away from the hole.
Field noteSalt flats crack into polygons; jigsaw tabs are a coincidence of scale.
Also possible, also breaking scale
A very small eruptionVolcanoes come small, and some only bubble mud. One in a sharpener is unwise but not contradictory.
Butterfly brutalismConcrete will take any shape you pour. Architects have built sillier things, if not this one.
Long distanceA phone the size of a cottage asks only for plastic and nerve. The line is another matter.
Glazed and confusedIcing sets hard enough to skate on if you are small enough. The cast is.