Field guide No. 855
Elastic strata span a desert canyon
The canyon has pulled a thread
Thin bands of red stone stretch across a wide desert gorge above a turquoise river. The geology has taken up weaving.
Field noteStone strata stretch like elastic across a canyon. The cliff has mistaken itself for a bridge.
- Specimen
- No. 855
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A deep desert gorge.
- Nearest existing relative
- A rock formation.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
Swallows vanish through the sky tearSwallows pass through a black slit stretched across the sky. The clouds have left a door ajar.
Lemon flames on blue enamelJuice runs out of segments that are burning, wet and alight in the same slice.
Chestnut on fractured blue waterWater that cracks into slabs like glass, still wet and rippling. A liquid can’t keep broken edges.
Violin strings bloom into grassStrings are wire or gut, made long ago. These are green and growing, and still fixed at the pegs.