Field guide No. 1586
Loose thread
The hem is going down the drain
A black stage curtain in a concrete hall frays at the bottom into streams of falling water that pool on the floor. The curtain call has turned into a leak.
Field noteVelvet frays into threads, and these threads keep falling and pooling on the floor.
Also possible, also breaking material
Crimson ribbon, impossible asphaltA red strip snakes through cracked pavement. The road has been unstitched.
Dust car washSedan built of brown leaves rolls on between the spinning brushes.
MouthfulBitten chunk sits beside its pear turned to clear glass, still beaded with juice.
Please untangle the northern lightsAuroras are light a hundred kilometres up. This one came low enough, and solid enough, to snag.