Field guide No. 1465
Ocean waves in brittle reeds
Surf season in the stubble.
A harvested field of broken dry stalks, each stalk top curling into a small breaking blue wave. Dozens of tiny tides, nowhere near water.
Field noteEach dry stalk ends in a breaking wave, which needs a sea under it and has only stubble.
- Specimen
- No. 1465
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A cut maize field in late autumn, miles inland.
- Nearest existing relative
- A maize field after harvest.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Refrigerator of endless velvet ropesFar more rope spills across the gym than a fridge that size could hold, and it keeps coming.
Cold desertDeserts are hot and wide; ice cubes are neither. This one keeps a whole desert chilled.
Maintenance at dawnTwo suns, one of them in an egg cup. A star small enough to polish has stopped being a star.
Home advantageA floodlit stadium and its crowd cannot fit in a locket. This one holds the match in full.