Field guide No. 1197
Steel rings in a sliced onion
Layers, but sharper.
A halved onion shows concentric rings of toothed steel blades where the flesh should be, on a scratched dark surface. The eyes will water, and the cook will need to watch their fingers.
Field noteToothed steel blades take the onion’s rings. The eyes will water, and the fingers.
Also possible, also breaking material
Starry blackberries on a thorn branchRipe blackberries hold starfields and a spiral galaxy. The red ones are merely unripe.
Bed indentation through the wallPlaster takes an imprint while wet; this wall was apparently slept in long enough to dent.
Lion with a brass key maneManes are hair. Keys hung in their hundreds are a locksmith’s idea of grooming.
Pebble unraveling into a sand strandStone knitted in rows, with a loose end. Somebody pulled it and the beach is getting longer.