Field guide No. 376
Moth at the edge of daylight
Found a better light.
On a wet rooftop under a full moon, a pale moth clings beside a ragged hole torn in the night sky, with blue sky and a sunny cloud on the other side. It may have chewed it.
Field noteDay and night are times, not sides of a sheet. Through the hole it is both at once, in one sky.
- Specimen
- No. 376
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet rooftop under a full moon.
- Nearest existing relative
- A moth at a lamp.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking category
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An honest reflectionA mirror showing somewhere else is a mirror and a window at once. Mud on the sink takes the window’s side.