A glass jug sat on a lichened boulder, filling with rain. When water brimmed the lip, the stony bald suffered in the drought.
A pair of iron sheers lay on the hemlock floor. When pressed into the loam by the passing of a hoof, the golden leaves began to fall.
A fieldstone wall traversed the mountain spur. When broken by a clumsy bear, the frozen stream shifted in the thaw.
A Model A rotted in the grassy hollow. When mice were birthed in the glovebox, the moon rolled over the western ridge.
A dooryard of periwinkle grew among the litter of leaves. When the blue flowers bloomed, a sick wren finished dying.
A lone wall leaned with the wind. When the stone chimney fell, lightning burnt the wasps’ nest.
A button was wedged into the bark of a tree. When the crow took it home, the snow closed the fire roads.