Field guide No. 179
The listening wall
It hears you knock.
A brass keyhole sits at the centre of rings spreading through a cracked green plaster wall, like ripples in a pond.
Field notePlaster does crack in rings. Rippling like a pond is the material getting ideas.
Also possible, also breaking material
Knotical milesSmall boats ride waves; this wave is chunky knit. Wool makes poor weather, comfortably.
The bread remembersGeodes form in hollow rock; sourdough has hollows. The bakery would need several million years.
Pillow-soft brickFired clay doesn’t dent under a head, as several heads can attest. Logically, it’s allowed to.
Sandstone coats in a seaside changing roomStone carved into a coat is just a sculptor’s idea of a cloakroom. Heavy, but coherent.