Field guide No. 1049
The stratum takes flight
Birds leave the rock in layers
A flock of dark birds rises from a striped canyon wall above a dry valley. The strata have released their contents.
Field noteDark birds rise from a striped canyon wall. The strata released their contents.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Inverted courtyard of skyward porchesCourtyards end in a floor. This one ends, at the bottom, in open sky.
Borrowed timeA brass mechanism casts a curved shadow by its pendulum. Time is collected in installments.
The sleep of stonesBoulders cradled in smooth dips as if the ground gave way for them. Quarries do not do this; nothing here forbids it.
The last unread snowfallBooks describe snow; they don’t usually issue it. The rest of the desk is perfectly ordinary.