Field guide No. 1315
Impossible reflection in a battered mirror
The mirror redecorated
A chipped standing mirror in an empty pink room reflects a ceiling rose and a hanging lamp. The room itself has neither, and is a little hurt about it.
Field noteMirror shows a ceiling rose and a hanging bulb the pink room never had.
- Specimen
- No. 1315
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Physics
- Where it doesn’t exist
- an empty pink room with bare floorboards
- Nearest existing relative
- a cheval mirror
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking physics
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.
Empty lunch bags cast chicken shadowsPaper bags throw boxy shadows; under the strip light these six throw hens, combs and all.
Summer above, winter belowA reflection shows what is there. Snow in the water and none on the hills is the lake disagreeing.