Field guide No. 312
Midnight sky in the laundromat
Dark wash.
In an empty laundromat at night, a starry sky spills out of one washing machine and across the tiled floor like a heavy blanket. It came out a little shrunk.
Field noteA whole night sky inside one drum: the container is smaller than its contents.
- Specimen
- No. 312
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A laundromat open all night.
- Nearest existing relative
- A sequinned blanket.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Cold desertDeserts are hot and wide; ice cubes are neither. This one keeps a whole desert chilled.
Pearl of the nightPearls are small and grow in oysters. The moon is neither, yet here it is, being both.
The paperweight glacierA mountain range in a paperweight would be a model. The glacier leaving it at full size settles otherwise.
Into the matchwoodsForests are larger than matchboxes, as a rule this specimen breaks and keeps.
