Field guide No. 607
Vintage bicycle with rainbow wheels
Rides best after rain.
A red vintage bicycle leans against a peach wall by an open blue gate, its wheels two round rainbows reflected in the wet paving. It goes nowhere when it's dry.
Field noteRainbows are light and cannot carry weight. This bicycle stands on two of them for wheels.
Also possible, also breaking material
Off the recordThe groove is peeled into a wavy ribbon trailing off the disc; it still has a tune, just not a flat one.
The rug unravels into spaghettiFringes on a woollen rug turn into limp strands of cooked spaghetti spilling across the floorboards.
The radiator’s soft landingOak that sags like a mattress is wood forgetting itself. Heavy radiators on soft floors are no paradox.
Woven pulse through glassSound passes through windows unseen. This sound comes out the far side as woven cloth.