Field guide No. 1296
Flaming icicles on a summer wall
Cold, and somehow burning.
A row of icicles hangs from a sunlit red brick wall with a small flame burning inside each one. Nothing is melting.
Field noteIcicles hang from a sunlit brick wall, a flame burning inside every one.
- Specimen
- No. 1296
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a red brick garden wall in high summer
- Nearest existing relative
- a row of candles
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking physics
Frostbound fire in a deserted yardIce and flame cancel each other out, and here each holds the other in place along the yard’s floor.
The other costumeA mirror returns what stands in front of it. A bare skeleton for a living okapi returns something else.
Grass through the red deerGrass and stag occupy the same space here, each solid, neither giving way to the other.
Dry seabed beneath the kelpA dusty dry patch sits inside a column of green sea. The ocean opted out of itself.