Field guide No. 533
A breath of cathedral
Pop goes the nave.
A soap bubble drifts over a summer garden with a whole cathedral inside, the nave lit by shafts of sun and the organ pipes gleaming at the end. The service lasts until somebody sneezes.
Field noteA stone cathedral, nave and organ, cannot sit inside a soap bubble. This bubble carries one aloft.
- Specimen
- No. 533
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A summer garden.
- Nearest existing relative
- A soap bubble.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Cratered moons in the laundromatEvery drum holds a world bigger than the building around it. The sums don’t add up.
Mountain through the needle’s eyeA needle’s eye fits thread. This one fits a mountain range, which is also, somehow, the thread.
Sleeping ginger cat’s inner staircaseGinger fur holds a full flight of stairs inside the mouth, taller than the cat around it.
Eau de canalCities have districts and bell towers. A perfume bottle has a stopper. This one has both.