Field guide No. 531
Tooth door breaking through asphalt
Teething, municipal.
On a wet street at night, a white panelled door pushes up through the cracked asphalt on two roots, like a tooth coming in. The road will be tender for a while.
Field noteDoors are hung, not cut like teeth. This one is erupting through the road on two roots.
Also possible, also breaking category
Brass thrillsHorns are coiled tubing and so are coasters. One only needed seatbelts to become the other.
Cracked eggshell bag, golden yolkA paper bag printed with speckles holds a yolk badly but coherently. Packaging, misjudged.
Emerald beetles in a typewriterType strikes ink, not insects. Beetles in neat lines are a font with legs.
Hermit crab’s pinecone homePinecones aren’t hollow, so this crab is renting a house with no inside.
