Field guide No. 1404
Vinyl rings unbound above violet table
Every groove, unspooled
A stack of black records lies on a purple table, and loose black rings unspool from the stack and orbit it like wire. The grooves have come out for some air.
Field noteGrooves peel off a stack of black records as loose wire rings that hover in orbits above the table.
Also possible, also breaking material
The egg’s long way homeStretched into a tube, still an egg, still commuting. Shells do not draw out like taffy, but nothing here contradicts.
Loose translationPiano keys are wood and plastic; somewhere along the floor they wear down into beach stones.
Accordion-folded brick wallBrick holds its shape by being brick. This wall hangs in pleats as if it went through the wash with the curtains.
Snakes emerge from the woodgrainWoodgrain lifts off the boards as snakes. Patterns in planks are not meant to have heads.