Field guide No. 199
Maintenance at dawn
Polish before breakfast.
Two yellow rubber gloves polish a small glowing sun sitting in an egg cup on a breakfast table, while the real one rises through the window. Someone has to keep it shiny.
Field noteTwo suns, one of them in an egg cup. A star small enough to polish has stopped being a star.
- Specimen
- No. 199
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A breakfast table, facing east.
- Nearest existing relative
- An egg cup, and rubber gloves.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Pocket weather bureauA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.
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.