Field guide No. 1602
Pollen count
High today
An old metal slide in a misty park pours a thick stream of yellow pollen down its chute into the leaves. Nobody is on it; the slide is having the go.
Field noteSlide spills yellow pollen like sand, with no child on it to blame.
Also possible, also breaking material
Holding patternBicycle rolls on panes of glass cut like spokes, with shards already in the ditch.
Wax transformer substation at midnightTransformers are steel and oil. Built in wax with lit wicks, they’d melt at the first load.
Glassy trails in an abandoned greenhouseTransparent ribbons can stretch through a greenhouse. The plants have not claimed them.
Accordion turf in the meadowMeadow turf pleated like bellows, roots and soil folded into each crease.