Field guide No. 045
Minor disruption
Road works, geological.
A traffic cone on a wet night street has a live volcano inside, steam rising from its tip. Please take an alternative route.
Field noteVolcanoes are what mountains do. A traffic cone has no room for a mountain.
- Specimen
- No. 045
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet night street, single lane.
- Nearest existing relative
- A traffic cone.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Under the starsA whole sky, moon included, collected in an umbrella below that same sky. Something is out of place.
Moonlight in the drawerThe moon’s surface, with the moon rising over it, in a drawer. It cannot be both ground and sky.
Into the matchwoodsForests are larger than matchboxes, as a rule this specimen breaks and keeps.
Cold desertDeserts are hot and wide; ice cubes are neither. This one keeps a whole desert chilled.