Field guide No. 316
Pigeon on a soft brick cushion
The wall dipped to fit.
A pigeon dozes in the top of a red brick wall that sags under it like a cushion. Built to last, and to be comfortable.
Field noteBrick that sags like a cushion is not brick, whatever the mortar says.
- Specimen
- No. 316
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A garden wall in late sun.
- Nearest existing relative
- A cushion.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking material
A machine that stitches fogStitching needs something that holds a thread. Fog, by being fog, holds nothing.
Brick's soft landing on porcelainPorcelain that yields like a cushion is no longer porcelain. The plate is both and neither.
Fish over folded pool waterWater folded into a stack keeps its shape, which is the one thing water doesn’t do.
Koi swimming through woodA fish swims through liquid. A floor that is liquid for fish and solid for chairs is both.