Field guide No. 863
Flames trapped inside hailstones
A small fire inside the weather
Several flames burn inside clear hailstones scattered across a dark field. The forecast now has an indoor fire warning.
Field noteEach hailstone contains a visible flame. Ice has become a lantern without making room.
- Specimen
- No. 863
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A dark field beneath storm clouds.
- Nearest existing relative
- A hailstone.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Feathers forged into steelWhite feathers emerge from a press as a solid steel bar. The metal remembers its softer ingredients.
Red straws through the tableStraws stand in a glass and poke out beneath the table. The tabletop is solid on its upper side only.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
Iron anchor, leafbound chainThe chain is iron at the anchor and leaves at the top, and each link holds the next with no point of change.