Field guide No. 044
Milky Way breakfast
Part of a balanced galaxy.
Milk spirals up out of a cereal bowl into a small galaxy, with cereal rings orbiting like planets. Breakfast is served at light speed.
Field noteGalaxies are not portion-sized. A small one is a contradiction served in a bowl.
- Specimen
- No. 044
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A breakfast table, under a spiral arm.
- Nearest existing relative
- A bowl of cereal.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
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.
Space to soakGalaxies run to a hundred thousand light years. The tub runs to about five feet.