Field guide No. 1483
Rooted wires in a rusty junction box
Electrics, gone to seed.
Orange, teal and black cables in a rusted junction box, their cut copper ends sprouting pale roots. Nobody is going to rewire this.
Field noteCopper strands sprout roots, so a cable ends as a living plant and a dead conductor at once.
- Specimen
- No. 1483
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Category
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A rusted junction box on a damp wall.
- Nearest existing relative
- A seed potato.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking category
Colander of falling holesHoles are where something isn’t. These drop out as solid black discs, and one makes a fresh hole where it lands.
Turquoise fish in branch shadowsA shadow is an absence of light, not a place. These fish swim in it as if it had depth and water.
Borrowed backboneA slug carries an exposed spine. The loan is secured against next year’s mucus.
An honest reflectionA mirror showing somewhere else is a mirror and a window at once. Mud on the sink takes the window’s side.