Field guide No. 1393
Tide shifted basalt stones
Leaving a bit of themselves behind
Dark boulders in a rocky tide pool each trail a stretched neck of stone to a second lump, as if they slid and left part of themselves behind. The tide moved them and they stretched rather than let go.
Field noteBoulders in the shallows stretch like taffy toward second lumps of themselves, pulled out by the tide.
Also possible, also breaking material
Snowflake wings in spring thawMoth wings shed scales as dust. This moth’s wing breaks up into drifting snowflakes.
Between stationsFish heads and fins protrude from smooth tide-pool rock. Fish and stone have not agreed who is who.
Hinged boulder across a quarry fissureQuarried block pleated like a paper fan to straddle the crack below it.
A suitable pauseBenches are wood, water is wet, and neither rule forbids the other. The greyhound has not asked.