Field guide No. 1457
Library book reveals ancient geological strata
Overdue by several epochs.
An open hardback on a red floor whose right-hand pages are bands of rock with an ammonite pressed in. Very long reading.
Field notePages turn and rock layers don’t, yet the right-hand half of this book is both at once.
- Specimen
- No. 1457
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A red-tiled reading room with a returns trolley.
- Nearest existing relative
- A sediment core.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking category
Sleeping fox, standing shadowA fox sleeps while its shadow stands upright. One of them is keeping watch.
Closing time for shadowsA shadow is where light isn’t. Swept into a pile, it’s also something that is. Pick one.
Finished room, unfinished reflectionThis mirror shows a room that is finished and not finished at once, and both are the same bathroom.
Volcanic eyelid across the plainGround has no eyes and eyes have no lava. This crater is plainly a closed lid, lashes and all.