Field guide No. 296
Brick's soft landing on porcelain
The plate gave way, politely.
A brick sinks into a white dinner plate that has gone soft as a cushion, on a blue tablecloth. Fine china, finally doing its best.
Field notePorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
- Specimen
- No. 296
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A blue tablecloth, laid for one.
- Nearest existing relative
- A dinner plate.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
A machine that stitches fogStitching needs something that holds a thread. Fog, by being fog, holds nothing.
Fish over folded pool waterWater folded into a stack keeps its shape, which is the one thing water doesn’t do.
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.
Pigeon on a soft brick cushionBrick that sags like a cushion is not brick, whatever the mortar says.