Field guide No. 882
Lizard swimming into plaster
A lizard enters the wall
A green lizard and its plaster-like impression appear to merge on a turquoise wall. The paint has developed a wildlife problem.
Field noteA lizard and its plaster impression merge on the wall. The house has become part of the animal.
- Specimen
- No. 882
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A turquoise exterior wall.
- Nearest existing relative
- A wall lizard.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Flames trapped inside hailstonesEach hailstone contains a visible flame. Ice has become a lantern without making room.
Yellow canoe through stoneA solid canoe and a solid boulder occupy the same place. Both are stated to be hard; the picture cannot keep that up.
Fish over folded pool waterWater folded into a stack keeps its shape, which is the one thing water doesn’t do.
Ironing a sheet of smokeSmoke is not cloth, yet here it lies pressed flat as linen and curls away as smoke past the board’s end.