Field guide No. 1604
Rain check
Falls straight, after some thought.
Rain pours off the edge of a corrugated roof into a muddy yard. Every stream comes down in zigzags, following the shape of the roof all the way down.
Field noteDownpour keeping the corrugation’s zigzag all the way to the mud, like it was poured from a mould.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Coral blossoms in desert tire tracksCoral needs seawater and gets none here. It has grown along a tyre track in baked mud as if the tread were a reef.
Standing waterA clear ring of water stands above a tiled floor. The puddle has taken a vertical position.
Unfinished businessPebbles on the black beach each hover a lid’s width above their lower halves, split and never finished.
An inconvenient angleBaths can be mounted on walls. The water staying in is what the plumbers dispute.