Field guide No. 677
Iron anchor, leafbound chain
Moored to the forest.
A rusted iron anchor lies in the moss and fallen leaves of a wood, and its chain turns, link by link, into a chain of autumn leaves rising up into the canopy. It is holding the forest in place for the winter.
Field noteThe chain is iron at the anchor and leaves at the top, and each link holds the next with no point of change.
- Specimen
- No. 677
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A mossy wood in autumn, far from water.
- Nearest existing relative
- A ship’s anchor.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
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