Field guide No. 374
Lunar laundry
Delicates, warm wash.
In a run-down laundromat, two raccoons pull a glowing full moon out of an open washing machine onto a heap of towels, water spilling across the floor. It came out whiter.
Field noteThe moon is two thousand miles across, and this drum is two feet. One of them has to give.
- Specimen
- No. 374
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A run-down laundromat.
- Nearest existing relative
- A washing machine.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Cratered moons in the laundromatEvery drum holds a world bigger than the building around it. The sums don’t add up.
Into the matchwoodsForests are larger than matchboxes, as a rule this specimen breaks and keeps.
Steep retreatPine forests do not fit in kettles, even ones with the lid off. Somebody is steeping one regardless.
Pocket weather bureauA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.