Field guide No. 1378
Tangled lightning in a disused satellite dish
Finally receiving
An old radio dish stands rusting on wasteland at dusk, its bowl full of purple lightning tangled like a nest. It stopped listening to the sky and started catching it.
Field notePurple lightning coils in the bowl of a rusted dish like a nest of wire, never leaving for the ground.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Autumn leaves suspended in timeLeaves that refuse to land are gravity’s embarrassment. The tree is entirely ordinary.
Dry cobweb beneath a red umbrellaUpside down on a flooded floor, the umbrella keeps a pocket of air and a cobweb stays dusty inside it.
Pine needles puncture a solid branch shadowPine needles cross a branch shadow on the forest floor. The tree has sewn itself down.
Gravity defying wall of fallen leavesLeaf litter piled into a hedge-high wall with sheer sides and no frame.