Field guide No. 1389
The rug unravels into spaghetti
Al dente fringe
An olive wool rug lies on a bare wooden floor, its fringe at each end made of long strands of cooked spaghetti. Someone left dinner tassels.
Field noteFringes on a woollen rug turn into limp strands of cooked spaghetti spilling across the floorboards.
Also possible, also breaking material
White iceberg, black ink seaIce is frozen water, so it melts water. Black ink running out of it is the wrong melt.
Scallop wing butterfly on blue rockWings made of shell, ribbed and fanned. It has the colouring for flight and the weight for the seabed.
Tangled rainbow signal on the rooftopA dish spills rainbow cables across the roof. The signal arrived in full colour and all at once.
Fallen tree with granite rootsGranite roots should have held anything upright; the trunk toppled and the stone base came up whole.