Field guide No. 808
Pearls hidden in autumn leaves
A season with a hard centre.
Small white pearls sit in the curled leaves scattered across a forest floor. Autumn has started keeping valuables.
Field notePearls can sit among leaves without changing either. Autumn has acquired a small inventory.
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 piano keys wandered awayLoose keys can be laid across a stage. The piano is missing a few, not a dimension.
Red mortar, blue iceRed brickwork runs through a wall of blue glacier ice. The building has found an unusual basement.