Field guide No. 880
Leaves suspended over leaf shaped voids
Leaves suspended over missing leaves
Autumn leaves hover above dark, leaf-shaped holes in the forest floor. The ground has removed the evidence.
Field noteAutumn leaves hover above matching holes in the forest floor. The ground has filed the leaves away.
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.