Field guide No. 1214

A single white egg stretches into a long tube through the wooden nest boxes of an old henhouse, trailing across the straw. It is on the way back to the nest, and some way off.

The egg’s long way home

The egg is mid-commute.

A single white egg stretches into a long tube through the wooden nest boxes of an old henhouse, trailing across the straw. It is on the way back to the nest, and some way off.

Field noteStretched into a tube, still an egg, still commuting. Shells do not draw out like taffy, but nothing here contradicts.

Specimen
No. 1214
Kind
Possible (the golden mountain kind)
Breaks
Material
Where it doesn’t exist
Henhouses, where eggs stay the shape they were laid
Nearest existing relative
a hen’s egg in a nest box.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Surreal

Also possible, also breaking material