Field guide No. 1155
One for the road
Packed light, packed tread.
An open red suitcase on wet car park asphalt has a long ribbon of tyre tread unfurling from it across the yellow lines. Whatever it was carrying, it has been on the road a while.
Field noteTyre tread pours from a red suitcase across the yellow lines; it has been on the road a while.
Also possible, also breaking material
Where the fox wasStone takes prints only over ages. This one took a fox’s nap in detail and kept it.
Woodgrain watermelon on an enamel tableRings can appear in watermelon flesh like tree grain. The seeds remain where they were.
Velvet waterfall, rooted in stoneA cascade of dark velvet that roots at the foot of a cliff. Cloth does not grow, but the sentence about it is coherent.
Vanished radio mast, hollow rust shellOxide can keep a girder’s shape after the steel goes, but flakes that thin should never hold a tower up.