Field guide No. 038
Peak espresso
Ski in, sip out.
A snowy mountain rises from the foam of a blue coffee cup, ski lift and chalet included. The steam doubles as cloud cover.
Field noteMountain ranges with ski lifts outsize their crockery. This cup is holding one anyway.
- Specimen
- No. 038
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A café table, foam line and above.
- Nearest existing relative
- A cup of coffee.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Autumn under glassA forest, waterfall and all, in an acorn, in autumn, in the snow. Too much, and too late in the year.
Maintenance at dawnTwo suns, one of them in an egg cup. A star small enough to polish has stopped being a star.
A spoonful of seaA sea is, among other things, more than a spoonful. This one is both.
Steep retreatPine forests do not fit in kettles, even ones with the lid off. Somebody is steeping one regardless.