Field guide No. 999
Grounded cloud, suspended shadow
Two clouds refuse to mix
A white cloud and its dark shadow sit apart above a cracked plain. The forecast has divided itself by tone.
Field noteA cloud and its detached shadow sit apart. The forecast has split itself by tone.
- Specimen
- No. 999
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A cracked plain beneath a white cloud.
- Nearest existing relative
- A cloud.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
The tidal channel’s shed skinWater keeps no skin to shed. This channel peeled off a clear one, every ripple kept, and moved over.
Two deer, one living antlerTwo deer share one branching antler. The herd has reduced its headcount of horns.
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.