Field guide No. 144
Moonlight in the drawer
Second drawer down.
An antique chest in a dark room has one drawer open, and inside it is the surface of the moon with a full moon rising.
Field noteThe moon’s surface, with the moon rising over it, in a drawer. It cannot be both ground and sky.
- Specimen
- No. 144
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An antique chest, second drawer down, after dark.
- Nearest existing relative
- A chest of drawers, and the moon.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Minor disruptionVolcanoes are what mountains do. A traffic cone has no room for a mountain.
Cold side of the pillowAn ice cave runs deeper than the pillow it opens from. Bigger inside than out, and colder.
The listening dunesA horn holds sound, not the universe it is playing. This one holds both, which is too much.
Space to soakGalaxies run to a hundred thousand light years. The tub runs to about five feet.