Field guide No. 1100
Dry seabed beneath the kelp
Dry patch, under the sea.
Kelp rises in green water around a bare patch of sandy seabed that is kicking up dust. A small pocket of the ocean has opted out.
Field noteA dusty dry patch sits inside a column of green sea. The ocean opted out of itself.
- Specimen
- No. 1100
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A kelp forest.
- Nearest existing relative
- A sandy seabed.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
The sideways forest meetingTrees grow away from the ground they stand in. These stand in a wall and grow level, as if down were east.
Noon in the coffee puddleSpilt coffee reflects a midday sun and clouds under a diner ceiling at dusk.
Emergency exit to springSnow on the near side, meadow on the far side, same field. One place cannot have two seasons at once.
Shadow waterfall on dry limestoneA shadow needs something in the light. This one falls down the cliff with nothing there to cast it.