Field guide No. 1444
Full stop
A whole waterfall, one saucer
A tall waterfall drops off a cliff and lands neatly in a small white saucer on the ledge below. Not a drop gets past it.
Field noteSaucers hold a cup’s spill; this one takes a river’s whole drop and isn’t even full.
- Specimen
- No. 1444
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A cliff ledge under a falling river.
- Nearest existing relative
- A drip tray.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
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