Field guide No. 711

A red four-holed button the size of a car lies half sunk in a white salt flat, the crust cracked around it in a honeycomb. The coat it came off is nowhere on the horizon.

Scarlet button on the salt horizon

Somebody’s coat is very cold.

A red four-holed button the size of a car lies half sunk in a white salt flat, the crust cracked around it in a honeycomb. The coat it came off is nowhere on the horizon.

Field noteButtons come in all sizes, but car-sized is a lot of coat. This one lies sunk in salt.

Specimen
No. 711
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Scale
Where it doesn’t exist
A white salt flat under clear sky.
Nearest existing relative
A coat button.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also possible, also breaking scale