Field guide No. 592
Straw hatted garden snail
Sun-ready shell.
On a terracotta step by a blue door, a large garden snail carries a woven straw sun hat with a blue ribbon as its shell, the crown coiled like a spiral. It will be heading out at a stroll.
Field noteSnails grow their shells. This one carries a woven sun hat, ribbon and all, coiled into a spiral.
Also possible, also breaking material
Where asphalt unravels into woolTarmac is not knitted, and that is the only rule broken. Roads do fray; just not like this.
Where rainbows become rockRainbows end nowhere you can reach. This one carries on into a quarry face as coloured stone.
Loose ends of summerThe court surface unravels at the baseline into grass blades, as if the season had been knitted.
Prismatic stream across the salt marshStream stands up out of the marsh as a clear block, square-edged and winding.