Field guide No. 1332
Nest of the stretched branch
Deeper than it looks
A twig nest sits in the fork of a lichened branch, its cup sinking into a dark funnel. Whatever lays here does not want the eggs back.
Field noteNest cup drops into a dark funnel far deeper than the fork can hold.
- Specimen
- No. 1332
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- the fork of a lichened branch
- Nearest existing relative
- a bird’s nest
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Asphalt puddles into deep spaceA pothole a foot deep with a galaxy in it is bigger inside than out. The tarmac contradicts itself.
The lining that outgrew the shopSatin from one hanging coat’s lining sweeps over the whole workroom, far bigger than the coat that holds it.
Fresh produceJungles are not stored, they extend. One shelf deep is a contradiction with a light in it.
Pocket weather bureauA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.