Field guide No. 1196
Static spills onto purple carpet
The signal went out the front.
A television in a cosy living room pours its static onto a purple carpet in a heap of black and white grains. Nobody has found the vacuum or wishes to.
Field noteA television pours its static onto the carpet in grainy heaps. The signal went out the front.
Also possible, also breaking material
Peeling moonlight on dark woodSheets of clear light lie across the floor, lifting at the corners beneath a full moon.
Translucent tongue at the salt lickTongue of clear crystal stretches from a doe to the pink salt rock, glassy as the seam it licks.
Sandstone coats in a seaside changing roomStone carved into a coat is just a sculptor’s idea of a cloakroom. Heavy, but coherent.
Black shadow driftA fence post’s shadow has banked up against it like snow, crumbs and all. Wind usually does this in white.