Field guide No. 304
Fish over folded pool water
Drained, folded, put away.
In an empty indoor pool at night, the water sits folded in a neat blue stack on the diving board while a fish floats over the lifeguard chair. Closing time.
Field noteWater folded into a stack keeps its shape, which is the one thing water doesn’t do.
- Specimen
- No. 304
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An indoor pool after closing.
- Nearest existing relative
- A folded towel.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
A machine that stitches fogStitching needs something that holds a thread. Fog, by being fog, holds nothing.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.
Pigeon on a soft brick cushionBrick that sags like a cushion is not brick, whatever the mortar says.