Field guide No. 081
Pearl of the night
Full moon, freshly harvested.
A giant oyster on a rocky shore opens to show the moon as its pearl, while a lighthouse keeps watch behind.
Field notePearls are small and grow in oysters. The moon is neither, yet here it is, being both.
- Specimen
- No. 081
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A rocky shore under a lighthouse, low tide only.
- Nearest existing relative
- An oyster, and the moon.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Pocket weather bureauA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.
Midnight sky in the laundromatA whole night sky inside one drum: the container is smaller than its contents.
Fresh produceJungles are not stored, they extend. One shelf deep is a contradiction with a light in it.
Steep retreatPine forests do not fit in kettles, even ones with the lid off. Somebody is steeping one regardless.