Field guide No. 1478
Rainy road reveals orange butterfly scales
The street was a wing all along.
Wet suburban asphalt peels open to show rows of orange and black scales underneath. The road was laid over a very large butterfly.
Field noteAsphalt cracks open on a wing, which makes the whole road something that once flew.
- Specimen
- No. 1478
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet suburban road in autumn, kerb to kerb.
- Nearest existing relative
- A pothole.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Lunar laundryThe moon is two thousand miles across, and this drum is two feet. One of them has to give.
Tiny black pore swallows the dunesA hole the size of a coin drawing in a desert the size of a county. The streaks show it going, all at once.
Chance of showersWeather small enough for a boot has stopped being a storm. The boot insists otherwise.
Cold side of the pillowAn ice cave runs deeper than the pillow it opens from. Bigger inside than out, and colder.