Field guide No. 902
Red kite tears open the sky
A kite cuts a hole in the sky
A red kite tears a bright triangular opening through a blue sky above a field. The string is attached to the wrong side of the weather.
Field noteA kite opens a bright tear through the blue sky. The weather has been treated like cloth.
- Specimen
- No. 902
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A field beneath a blue sky.
- Nearest existing relative
- A red kite.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
Straight strings, warped violinA violin’s body bends into a wave while its strings stay straight. The instrument has divided the difference.
Knotted amethyst geode in quarry stoneQuartz crystals grow straight and brittle, yet these points line a rope that was tied while hard.
Water flame, fire dripsWater cannot burn, nor fire drip. This candle’s flame is splashing water and its drips are flame.
Transparent flames in a glass forestFlame is moving gas, glass is still solid. These trees are both, with bark-like ridges in the shine.