Field guide No. 1509
Terracotta tails across the rubble
The wall left, slowly.
A ruined brick wall whose red courses flow down and out across the rubble in long curving ribbons. Demolition, if the bricks had decided to wander off by themselves.
Field noteCourses of fired clay drooping like rope ask a lot of mortar, yet every brick is still a brick.
Also possible, also breaking material
The evaporated water shirtShirts get wet on the line. This one is made of the water, and drying will be the end of it.
Crimson ribbon, impossible asphaltA red strip snakes through cracked pavement. The road has been unstitched.
An orange with a second skinSegments wear their own dimpled rind while the peel ribbon is full of flesh.
Northern seamsSewing machines need cloth; aurora is charged gas. A machine can try.
