Field guide No. 1365
Snail with an uncoiled shell
Shell, straightened out
A snail crawls across a pale rock with its shell coiled only at the back, the rest pulled out into a long twisting spiral. It looks like something that tried to stretch and overdid it.
Field noteUncoiled like a corkscrew, the shell trails behind its snail in one long twist ending in a tidy spiral.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
Echoes under an ear shaped ceilingPlaster ceiling coiled like a cochlea over an empty tiled hall.
Low tide laundryFish-print sheets are a choice, not a contradiction. They simply haven’t been hung here yet.
Cracked plate, unbroken cobalt ringsBlue rings painted across cracks remain a design. The plate has broken; the pattern has not.
Luminous fog across the valleySunlight illuminates fog drifting through a mountain valley. The hills have received a soft delivery.