  Capillary forces acting at the surface of a liquid drop can be strong enough
to deform small objects and recent studies have provided several examples of
elastic instabilities induced by surface tension. We present such an example
where a liquid drop sits on a straight fiber, and we show that the liquid
attracts the fiber which thereby coils inside the drop. We derive the
equilibrium equations for the system, compute bifurcation curves, and show the
packed fiber may adopt several possible configurations inside the drop. We use
the energy of the system to discriminate between the different configurations
and find a intermittent regime between two-dimensional and three-dimensional
solutions as more and more fiber is driven inside the drop.
