Field guide No. 652
Excavator bites the blue sky
Digging up instead of down.
In a quarry under a bright blue sky, a yellow excavator has dug its bucket into the sky itself and pulled a chunk away, leaving a jagged black hole behind. The bucket is full of blue.
Field noteSky is distance, not stuff. This one comes away in chunks under a bucket and leaves black behind it.
- Specimen
- No. 652
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A gravel quarry, cloudless day.
- Nearest existing relative
- An excavator.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
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.
Violin strings bloom into grassStrings are wire or gut, made long ago. These are green and growing, and still fixed at the pegs.
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.