Field guide No. 850
Crystalline peach on cobalt
A peach with crystal manners
Pieces of a peach sit on a cobalt-blue surface, their flesh faceted like translucent crystal. Dessert has become a display case.
Field noteThe peach is both fruit and faceted crystal. Dessert has entered the mineral collection.
- Specimen
- No. 850
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A cobalt-blue tabletop.
- Nearest existing relative
- A ripe peach.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Water flame, fire dripsWater cannot burn, nor fire drip. This candle’s flame is splashing water and its drips are flame.
Transparent flames in a glass forestFlame is moving gas, glass is still solid. These trees are both, with bark-like ridges in the shine.
Salt crystal seam splits teal waveA hard crystal seam divides a curling ocean wave. The sea has taken on a fault line.
Vertical river imprintRiverwater has set into a tall glassy slab standing on its edge in the cracked bed it once filled.