Field guide No. 820
Sunlight slices a flour cloud
A brighter kind of dusting.
Sunlight cuts through clouds of flour in a large bakery, leaving bright bands over the tables. The loaves are still waiting.
Field noteSunlight breaks into shafts through flour dust. The bakery’s surfaces are no longer clean.
Also possible, also breaking nothing
Loop neck flamingo at dawnA flamingo’s neck curls into a complete loop beside a still pool. It has found a shortcut to its own head.
Tree shaped void beneath clear iceA tree-shaped cut in clear ice, packed with oak leaves. The tree is absent, the outline is intact, nobody is wrong.
Slow flowSnail fountains are sold at garden centres. This one is merely the size of the wall.
Hermit crab’s jade insulator shellAny hollow that fits will do for a crab between shells. A glass insulator happens to fit.