Field guide No. 430
Asphalt puddles into deep space
Mind the potholes.
An empty car park is full of deep potholes, and at the bottom of each one is starry space with a spiral galaxy. Parking is still not advised.
Field noteA pothole a foot deep with a galaxy in it is bigger inside than out. The tarmac contradicts itself.
- Specimen
- No. 430
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A disused car park after rain.
- Nearest existing relative
- A pothole.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Pocket weather bureauA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.
Cratered moons in the laundromatEvery drum holds a world bigger than the building around it. The sums don’t add up.
Chance of showersWeather small enough for a boot has stopped being a storm. The boot insists otherwise.
Minor disruptionVolcanoes are what mountains do. A traffic cone has no room for a mountain.