Field guide No. 690
Mountain through the needle’s eye
Easier than a camel.
A sewing needle as tall as a crag stands in the scree, and a jagged mountain ridge runs through its eye like a thread, carrying on out the other side. It looks like someone is halfway through taking the range up.
Field noteA needle’s eye fits thread. This one fits a mountain range, which is also, somehow, the thread.
- Specimen
- No. 690
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A high scree slope in the mountains.
- Nearest existing relative
- A sewing needle.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Tiny black pore swallows the dunesA hole the size of a coin drawing in a desert the size of a county. The streaks show it going, all at once.
Storm clouds in a pea podPeas swapped for whole storm clouds, each one larger than any pod could carry, and one rains.
Lunar tempoA night sky is the thing everything else sits inside. Here it sits inside a metronome, on adagio.
Desert sand from brass mailboxesEach box holds a few letters, yet pours out a desert. More comes out than fits in.