Field guide No. 1394
Time bends around a worm
Running a few worms late
An old pocket watch lies in soil with an earthworm draped across its face, and the hands bend to follow the worm’s curve. The watch has decided worm time is the real time.
Field noteHands on a muddy pocket watch bend to follow the curve of the earthworm lying across its dial.
Also possible, also breaking material
Where rainbows become rockRainbows end nowhere you can reach. This one carries on into a quarry face as coloured stone.
Loose ends of summerThe court surface unravels at the baseline into grass blades, as if the season had been knitted.
Prismatic stream across the salt marshStream stands up out of the marsh as a clear block, square-edged and winding.
Velvet waterfall in an empty theatreFabric doesn’t fall like water, but a lot of fabric falling is merely expensive.