Field guide No. 022
Into the matchwoods
Keep away from naked flames.
A blue matchbox stands open on a salt flat, holding a small pine forest and a winding path. Strike carefully.
Field noteForests are larger than matchboxes, as a rule this specimen breaks and keeps.
- Specimen
- No. 022
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A salt flat, one open drawer of pines.
- Nearest existing relative
- A matchbox.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Peak espressoMountain ranges with ski lifts outsize their crockery. This cup is holding one anyway.
Eau de canalCities have districts and bell towers. A perfume bottle has a stopper. This one has both.
Autumn under glassA forest, waterfall and all, in an acorn, in autumn, in the snow. Too much, and too late in the year.
Maintenance at dawnTwo suns, one of them in an egg cup. A star small enough to polish has stopped being a star.