Field guide No. 1329
Moons in the washer
Delicates, lunar cycle
A laundrette washer by the sea is full of small cratered moons tumbling behind the glass. Tonight’s tide is on a spin cycle.
Field noteWasher drum holds a dozen full moons, cratered and stacked like dryer balls.
- Specimen
- No. 1329
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a front loader in a laundrette by the sea
- Nearest existing relative
- dryer balls
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Marbleous surfA rideable swell takes an ocean behind it. The marble supplies about a thimble.
Cratered moons in the laundromatEvery drum holds a world bigger than the building around it. The sums don’t add up.
Blue locomotive through a concrete keyholeFull size on both sides and thin as a key in the middle. A train cannot pass that hole without being two widths at once.
Sleeping ginger cat’s inner staircaseGinger fur holds a full flight of stairs inside the mouth, taller than the cat around it.