Field guide No. 1634
Tender spot
The granite stepped aside
A huge quarry boulder with a seedling at its base, the stone around it folded back in soft fan-shaped pleats. The seedling did not have to push.
Field noteSeedlings crack stone over years; here the granite has folded aside like a curtain.
Also possible, also breaking material
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 radiator’s soft landingOak that sags like a mattress is wood forgetting itself. Heavy radiators on soft floors are no paradox.
Paper plane, folding brick wallBrick creases like paper here, and paper hits like brick. They swapped jobs on impact.
Tangled rainbow signal on the rooftopA dish spills rainbow cables across the roof. The signal arrived in full colour and all at once.