Field guide No. 073
Marbleous surf
Swell, in miniature.
A green glass marble sits in an empty pink pool, a wave curling inside it with a surfer riding the barrel.
Field noteA rideable swell takes an ocean behind it. The marble supplies about a thimble.
- Specimen
- No. 073
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An empty pink pool, out of season.
- Nearest existing relative
- A glass marble.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Eau de canalCities have districts and bell towers. A perfume bottle has a stopper. This one has both.
Pocket weather bureauA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.
Midnight sky in the laundromatA whole night sky inside one drum: the container is smaller than its contents.
Fresh produceJungles are not stored, they extend. One shelf deep is a contradiction with a light in it.