Field guide No. 487
Tidal lagoon of liquid cubes
Shallow end, square edges.
From above, clear turquoise shallows break up into blocks of seawater with straight sides and sharp corners, scattered over white sand. The tide came in, in pieces.
Field noteWater takes the shape of what holds it. These blocks hold themselves, in cubes, on open sand.
Also possible, also breaking physics
Cutlery at low tideForks do drip. Four steady streams with no source is where hydraulics walks out.
Dust ripples in the bell foundrySound can make dust dance on a plate. A silent bell setting the floor rippling is less convincing.
Return to sender: upward rainRain falls once and stays fallen. These drops leave the pond again and head back to the leaf.
Stamp of reliefStamps leave impressions. Leaving a working oasis is a result ink has never managed.