Field guide No. 032
Lightly dressed
Reading light, side salad.
A brass desk lamp wears a glowing savoy cabbage leaf as its shade. Warm, ambient and very low in calories.
Field noteAny leaf can hang over a bulb. Few lampshades wilt by Thursday.
Also possible, also breaking material
Still water in a vintage carriageSeats of standing water require water that stands. Physics declines; logic shrugs.
Sound caught in a silver colanderSound has no shape to strain; glass ripples do. As sculpture it stands; as acoustics it leaks.
Fresh airFruit makes a feeble blade, but a blade nonetheless. The fan would work, briefly and stickily.
The bread remembersGeodes form in hollow rock; sourdough has hollows. The bakery would need several million years.