Field guide No. 1612
Sea change
The harbour wall is load-bearing water.
A long concrete harbour wall has a ragged tear along its middle. Inside the tear the open sea rolls, held within the wall.
Field noteSeawall holding the sea inside its own thickness, waves and horizon in a concrete gap.
- Specimen
- No. 1612
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- a dockside seawall at dawn
- Nearest existing relative
- a fish tank
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Spaces
Also impossible, also breaking scale
Fresh produceJungles are not stored, they extend. One shelf deep is a contradiction with a light in it.
The quiet spin cycleA galaxy, by definition, does not fit behind a porthole. On delicates, it does.
Magnets stretch a luminous galaxyA galaxy is the largest thing on any bench. This one fits between two magnets, so it’s huge and handheld.
Tin can opens the floorRing pulls peel back a strip of shop floor as the can’s lid, the tiles curling up like thin tin.