Field guide No. 907
Salt crystal seam splits teal wave
A crystal seam divides the sea
A pale crystal ridge splits a turquoise wave into two curling halves. The ocean has developed a fault line.
Field noteA hard crystal seam divides a curling ocean wave. The sea has taken on a fault line.
- Specimen
- No. 907
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A rough teal shoreline.
- Nearest existing relative
- A breaking wave.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Surreal
Also impossible, also breaking material
From sugar cubes to granite bouldersEach cube is sugar at the top of the fall and granite at the bottom, and no single cube is ever both.
Woven brick swallows a shopping cartBrick is fired clay, set hard. This wall weaves like wicker and closes round a trolley.
Swallows vanish through the sky tearSwallows pass through a black slit stretched across the sky. The clouds have left a door ajar.
Lemon flames on blue enamelJuice runs out of segments that are burning, wet and alight in the same slice.