Field guide No. 1559
False bottom
The channel floor has weather under it
A dry concrete flood channel with one floor slab peeled back like a tin lid, showing blue sky and clouds underneath. Whoever ordered the excavation has gone very quiet.
Field notePeeled concrete should show gravel and pipes, not afternoon weather facing the wrong way.
- Specimen
- No. 1559
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- Under the floor of a dry flood channel
- Nearest existing relative
- A lifted manhole cover
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
Three basins through one drainEach basin drains into one smaller than itself, standing inside the bigger one. The water would go up to go down.
Water from a thirsty shadowA dark shadow pours over the edge like water. It has stopped behaving like shade.
Zebra with floating stripesZebra markings are colour in the hair, so stripes drifting off alone are patterns without a coat.
Cat emerging from the printed pageHalf of it is ink on paper and half of it is cat. It can’t be both the picture and the thing pictured.