Field guide No. 348
Copper stitches mend the torn sky
Glowing thread on a storm front.
A long tear in a dark storm cloud over the prairie is laced shut with glowing copper stitches, sunset showing through the gaps. The rain still gets through.
Field noteSky has nothing to tear and nothing to sew into. Stitches in it mend a fabric that isn’t one.
- Specimen
- No. 348
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A prairie under a storm front.
- Nearest existing relative
- Surgical sutures.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
A machine that stitches fogStitching needs something that holds a thread. Fog, by being fog, holds nothing.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
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.