Field guide No. 714
Shattered rainbow on wet asphalt
Dropped on the way down.
In a wet, grey car park, a rainbow made of glass has come down onto the asphalt and broken into colourful shards, one arch still standing against a concrete block. Nobody saw it fall.
Field noteA rainbow is light and angle with no body to break. This one came down glass and smashed.
- Specimen
- No. 714
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Where it doesn’t exist
- A wet car park, lamps on.
- Nearest existing relative
- A rainbow.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Stone swimmerA silver fish is embedded in solid rock. The quarry kept its last swimmer.
Staircase into a frozen gravel splashGravel crowns and ripples here as if liquid while still being loose dry stones.
Fur lined sandstone canyonRock does not grow hair. This gorge is sandstone at the rim, a pelt at the floor, and seamless where they join.
Chance of webA delicate web holds a whole dark cloud between old columns. The forecast is caught in the mesh.
