Field guide No. 109
Pocket weather bureau
Forecast: spiralling.
An open gold pocket watch holds a hurricane in place of a dial, its clouds turning over the gears on a velvet desk.
Field noteA hurricane is weather on the scale of a coastline. One small enough for a waistcoat is not a hurricane.
- Specimen
- No. 109
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Scale
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A velvet desk blotter, in the eye of it.
- Nearest existing relative
- A pocket watch.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Lunar tempoA night sky is the thing everything else sits inside. Here it sits inside a metronome, on adagio.
The listening dunesA horn holds sound, not the universe it is playing. This one holds both, which is too much.
Chance of showersWeather small enough for a boot has stopped being a storm. The boot insists otherwise.
Knight pastureA valley that fits inside a chess piece has lost the main thing valleys do.