Field guide No. 1397
Translucent tongue at the salt lick
Licking the rock pink
A deer at a quarry wall licks a pink salt seam with a long, glassy tongue you can see straight through. It has licked salt long enough to start turning into it.
Field noteTongue of clear crystal stretches from a doe to the pink salt rock, glassy as the seam it licks.
Also possible, also breaking material
Fern emerging from shaleA fern can press into stone over time. This one saved the time and skipped the soil.
The railway’s impossible knotRail tied in an overhand knot, sleepers attached. Steel will not bend that way, which is a fact about steel only.
Rippling water in trilobite fossilsFossil hollows fill with rain often enough. These held the shapes and the water.
Fermented files in green cabinetsPaper is pulp, flat and finished. These files have gone yeasty and risen out of the drawers.