Field guide No. 025
A spoonful of sea
Serves one sailboat.
A silver spoon on the beach holds its own sea, with an island, surf and a tiny yacht. Do not stir.
Field noteA sea is, among other things, more than a spoonful. This one is both.
- Specimen
- No. 025
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A beach at low tide, one spoon wide.
- Nearest existing relative
- A spoon.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Chance of showersWeather small enough for a boot has stopped being a storm. The boot insists otherwise.
Milky Way breakfastGalaxies are not portion-sized. A small one is a contradiction served in a bowl.
Lunar tempoA night sky is the thing everything else sits inside. Here it sits inside a metronome, on adagio.
The quiet spin cycleA galaxy, by definition, does not fit behind a porthole. On delicates, it does.