Field guide No. 1371
Stone laughter across cracked salt
The flats find it hilarious
A cracked red salt flat is pocked with hundreds of little open mouths, each with stone teeth, all gaping at the sky. The ground is either laughing or very hungry.
Field noteMouths with tiny stone teeth gape from every salt crust plate, a whole plain caught mid-laugh.
Also possible, also breaking category
Chrome cart, amber huskMoulting is for insects; carts are made, not grown. A category slip with wheels.
Oak leaves become starlingsLeaves fall and stay leaves. These turn into starlings as the wind carries them off.
After the applauseBlack feathers cover piano keys and floorboards. The recital was brief and the audience molted.
Sparks across exposed tree rootsSnapped roots arc with violet sparks across each break, like severed cables still carrying current.