Field guide No. 745
The freight elevator grows gills
Doors open on the mushroom floor.
A freight lift’s steel doors stand open on a car packed floor to ceiling with orange shelf fungus, gills facing out. Nobody pressed the button for that floor.
Field noteFungus fills any damp dark box it is given. A lift car is a large one, left shut too long.
Also possible, also breaking scale
Paper wind between two doorwaysPaper rolls do flap in a cross draught. This one is the width of an alley and both doors are open.
Velvet tideTheatres open onto the sea in a few lucky places. Letting it onstage is a booking matter.
The wind combs the barleyCombs groom hair. Drawn through a field by an unseen hand, this one is a field’s size.
Inside the endless spherical rainforestA rainforest curls into a green sphere around a bright clearing. The walk back is left to the map.