Field guide No. 606
Twisted handset, straight cord
The coil went somewhere else.
A red telephone on a grey floor has a dead straight cord running to its handset, and the handset itself is twisted into a tight corkscrew. The call is very tense.
Field notePhone cords coil and handsets stay straight. On this phone the curl has moved into the handset.
Also possible, also breaking material
Fair exchange in shallow waterA crab in a glassy green shell stands beside an encrusted old bottle. Both parties accepted the terms.
Onion skin over a rusty wheelbarrowWheelbarrow tray is an onion skin, papery and split at the rusted rim.
A matter of tasteMoss and rock layered on sponge is a terrarium with a cake slice’s ambitions. Inedible, still possible.
Snowflake wings in spring thawMoth wings shed scales as dust. This moth’s wing breaks up into drifting snowflakes.