Field guide No. 1199
Stone inside a cracked egg
Hard boiled in advance.
A brown egg cracks open to reveal a speckled granite stone sitting in the clear white. Breakfast has become a geology question.
Field noteA speckled granite stone sits in the clear white. Breakfast has become a geology question.
Also possible, also breaking material
Velvet waterfall, rooted in stoneA cascade of dark velvet that roots at the foot of a cliff. Cloth does not grow, but the sentence about it is coherent.
Vanished radio mast, hollow rust shellOxide can keep a girder’s shape after the steel goes, but flakes that thin should never hold a tower up.
The softest fossil in the abyssFossils are bone turned to stone. This one turned to smoke and has somehow kept its shape for ages.
Molted basalt, amber huskRock can break into a thin crust as it weathers. The basalt has shed a coat, very slowly.