Field guide No. 053
Cold desert
Serve on the rocks.
An ice cube on a lilac plinth holds a whole desert: dunes, palm trees, a camel and the setting sun. Melting very slowly.
Field noteDeserts are hot and wide; ice cubes are neither. This one keeps a whole desert chilled.
- Specimen
- No. 053
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A lilac plinth, melting slowly.
- Nearest existing relative
- An ice cube.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Moonlight in the drawerThe moon’s surface, with the moon rising over it, in a drawer. It cannot be both ground and sky.
Into the matchwoodsForests are larger than matchboxes, as a rule this specimen breaks and keeps.
Minor disruptionVolcanoes are what mountains do. A traffic cone has no room for a mountain.
Pearl of the nightPearls are small and grow in oysters. The moon is neither, yet here it is, being both.