Field guide No. 1282
Crescent moon in the cutlery drawer
The good spoons are by the moon.
A kitchen drawer full of loose silver cutlery opens onto a patch of black night sky with a thin crescent moon in it. The forks are arranged around it like a frame.
Field noteCutlery drawer opens on a patch of night sky with a crescent moon in it.
- Specimen
- No. 1282
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a kitchen drawer full of silver spoons
- Nearest existing relative
- a skylight
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Thunderstorms in the spare bulbsA thunderstorm is miles wide. A thunderstorm the size of a bulb is a smaller thing than itself.
The dryer’s endless tunnelA drum two feet deep cannot hold a mile of brick tunnel. This dryer’s does.
Sky in a red umbrellaCanopy fabric holds a whole blue sky with clouds, far larger than the umbrella it sits in.
Steep retreatPine forests do not fit in kettles, even ones with the lid off. Somebody is steeping one regardless.