Field guide No. 870
Hailstones bloom into lightning clouds
The storm keeps its own weather
Hail falls across a field as dark clouds bloom into branching lightning near the ground. The storm is building itself from the bottom up.
Field noteHailstones grow into storm clouds at ground level. The weather has changed category without moving.
- Specimen
- No. 870
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet open field.
- Nearest existing relative
- A hailstone.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Ironing a sheet of smokeSmoke is not cloth, yet here it lies pressed flat as linen and curls away as smoke past the board’s end.
Elastic strata span a desert canyonStone strata stretch like elastic across a canyon. The cliff has mistaken itself for a bridge.
Hollow candles, solid flamesFlames carved solid sit on hollow dripping candles: the burning part cannot be a stone and a burn.
A machine that stitches fogStitching needs something that holds a thread. Fog, by being fog, holds nothing.