Field guide No. 683
Magnet bending the horizon
The skyline has iron in it.
A red horseshoe magnet stands on a cracked white salt flat, and the horizon beyond it has been drawn up into a gentle peak towards it. The sky, sensibly, is staying where it is.
Field noteHorizons are where the eye runs out, not a thing to pull, and this magnet has pulled one up anyway.
- Specimen
- No. 683
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A white salt flat under blue sky.
- Nearest existing relative
- A horseshoe magnet.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking category
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Pigeons fold the morning airPigeons drag the air behind them in creases, clear as cling film.
Wheelbarrow's unexpected sailboat reflectionA reflection that shows something else is not, by definition, its reflection. And yet it is.
Fox tail becoming asphalt roadFur and tarmac meet halfway down this tail, and the line where one becomes the other cannot be found.