Field guide No. 1175
Red threads stitching shut sunlight
Mending the afternoon.
Red thread runs from a heap of cloth on a worn table to a sunlit window, where it stitches the beam of light shut like a seam. Closing time was announced by the daylight, then sewn up properly.
Field noteRed thread sews a sunbeam closed like a seam. Light is mended, which it did not ask for.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Candlelit stag in rainy forestCandle flames go out in the rain. These antlers keep theirs lit regardless.
Prickly pear threaded with miniature lightningLightning this small should not stay put. These bolts hang from the spines like lights on a hedge.
Tiny storms in the cotton fieldGrey clouds rise from cotton plants. The crop has weathered the forecast.
Tangled lightning in a disused satellite dishPurple lightning coils in the bowl of a rusted dish like a nest of wire, never leaving for the ground.