Field guide No. 1249
Velvet rain over an empty field
A red downpour, dry to touch.
Dark red threads fall in long vertical lines from the sky over a grassy field and pile up in tangled heaps on the ground. Nobody has put out an umbrella for this.
Field noteRed velvet threads fall from the sky and pile in heaps. Weather made of fabric is unlikely, yet describable.
Also possible, also breaking material
Roots growing through broken terracottaRoots through clay are real enough; roots with no plant at the top are less so. The soil kept growing.
Stone inside a cracked eggA speckled granite stone sits in the clear white. Breakfast has become a geology question.
Crumpled granite on barren screeGranite fractures and never folds, but this boulder is creased like a letter someone balled up.
The fox’s snowy paper trailFootprints are marks pressed into snow. These are folded paper standing on it.