Field guide No. 108
Autumn under glass
Seasons, sealed.
A glass acorn in the snow holds a glowing autumn forest with a little waterfall. Keep it in the shell.
Field noteA forest, waterfall and all, in an acorn, in autumn, in the snow. Too much, and too late in the year.
- Specimen
- No. 108
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A snowy forest floor, out of season.
- Nearest existing relative
- An acorn, and a glass snow globe.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Knight pastureA valley that fits inside a chess piece has lost the main thing valleys do.
Marbleous surfA rideable swell takes an ocean behind it. The marble supplies about a thimble.
The quiet spin cycleA galaxy, by definition, does not fit behind a porthole. On delicates, it does.
Thunderstorms in the spare bulbsA thunderstorm is miles wide. A thunderstorm the size of a bulb is a smaller thing than itself.