Field guide No. 951
Balloon trapped inside marble
An air pocket survives the cut
A red balloon appears suspended inside a thick block of pale marble. Its quarry has kept the receipt.
Field noteA balloon hangs inside solid marble. The quarry has kept the receipt.
- Specimen
- No. 951
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A pale marble block on a workbench.
- Nearest existing relative
- A red balloon.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
The telephone booth’s fractured airCracks from the booth’s broken panes run on into the open sky, splintering the air like a windowpane.
An orange across alternate historiesOne orange with segments of glass, char and lime. A fruit can’t be every way it might have turned out.
Taut rope, wrinkled airHung from a rope like washing, a patch of air creases, drapes and casts a shadow it has no surface for.
Mustard bus becomes a paper ticketA yellow bus fades into a paper ticket at its rear. The fare has become the vehicle.