Field guide No. 211
The second skin of Monday
Lined with candles.
A yellow raincoat hangs on a wooden peg rail, packed inside with white pillar candles that drip wax from its hem. Warm, technically.
Field noteCandles can be packed into anything with a lining. A raincoat makes an odd but legal sconce.
Also possible, also breaking category
Frost on the film reelFilm unwinds in long, glossy ribbons, and rivers freeze into the same. The likeness is all it needs.
Cracked eggshell bag, golden yolkA paper bag printed with speckles holds a yolk badly but coherently. Packaging, misjudged.
Seals and the surging seaA screen is a picture of the sea, not the sea. The seals came anyway.
Room to expandBellows-shaped buildings are a structural engineer’s problem, not a philosopher’s.