Field guide No. 831
Abandoned boot biting a mooring rope
A boot has taken the line
A worn boot on a wet dock grips a frayed mooring rope in its teeth. It appears to have signed on for one last shift.
Field noteA boot with teeth and an appetite is footwear doing a creature’s job.
- Specimen
- No. 831
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet dock beside the water.
- Nearest existing relative
- A work boot.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
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