Jungle

Field guide No. 678

In a dim old kitchen an iron rests on a worn wooden ironing board, and what it is pressing is a sheet of smoke, smooth under the iron and curling off the end. It will need folding quickly.

Ironing a sheet of smoke

Crease-resistant, mostly.

In a dim old kitchen an iron rests on a worn wooden ironing board, and what it is pressing is a sheet of smoke, smooth under the iron and curling off the end. It will need folding quickly.

Field noteSmoke is not cloth, yet here it lies pressed flat as linen and curls away as smoke past the board’s end.

Specimen
No. 678
Kind
Impossible (the round square kind)
Breaks
Material
Where it doesn’t exist
An old kitchen, in window light.
Nearest existing relative
A flat iron.
Filed in Fresh slop as
Objects

Also impossible, also breaking material