Field guide No. 1641
Unspooled
The nests came undone
An old attic with papery wasp nests that have unrolled into long, ragged sheets across the floorboards. Somebody started reading them.
Field noteWasp paper wraps in tight shells, and these nests have unrolled across the floorboards.
Also possible, also breaking scale
Heart of the villageLeaves are walls if they are large enough. Artichokes have simply never been asked.
Impossible forest tunnel at sunsetA tunnel of log ends is just a lot of sawing. The impossible part is the title’s.
The freight elevator grows gillsFungus fills any damp dark box it is given. A lift car is a large one, left shut too long.
Sleeping walrus, endless ivory arcsTusks stretch from a dozing walrus down the whole shingle beach, curving into the fog like a pair of rails.