Field guide No. 617
A fused wing of starlings
One bird, assembled from several.
Over a grey sky, a flock of starlings has run together into a single black shape like one ragged wing, with heads and tails still poking out at the edges. Murmuration, taken literally and then too far.
Field noteFlocks are many birds keeping apart. Here they are one bird and many at once, sharing a single wing.
- Specimen
- No. 617
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An overcast sky above open country.
- Nearest existing relative
- A starling.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
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