Field guide No. 074
Lunar tempo
Keeping time all night.
A wooden metronome holds a starry night sky, its arm tipped with a crescent moon. Set to adagio.
Field noteA night sky is the thing everything else sits inside. Here it sits inside a metronome, on adagio.
- Specimen
- No. 074
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A velvet-draped piano room, after midnight.
- Nearest existing relative
- A wooden metronome.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
The quiet spin cycleA galaxy, by definition, does not fit behind a porthole. On delicates, it does.
Thunderstorms in the spare bulbsA thunderstorm is miles wide. A thunderstorm the size of a bulb is a smaller thing than itself.
Peak espressoMountain ranges with ski lifts outsize their crockery. This cup is holding one anyway.
Eau de canalCities have districts and bell towers. A perfume bottle has a stopper. This one has both.