Field guide No. 911
Silk ribbon splits the saw blade
The saw meets a soft line
A bright silk ribbon passes through the teeth of a large industrial saw. The machine has been given a delicate assignment.
Field noteA silk ribbon passes through a running saw blade without being cut. The blade has missed its only job.
- Specimen
- No. 911
- Genus
- Generated
- Kind
- Impossible (the round square kind)
- Breaks
- Material
- Where it doesn’t exist
- An industrial workshop.
- Nearest existing relative
- A silk ribbon.
- Filed in Fresh slop as
- Objects
Also impossible, also breaking material
Projector light becomes velvet curtainA projector beam gathers into a heavy purple curtain. Light has acquired a hem.
The telephone booth’s fractured airCracks from the booth’s broken panes run on into the open sky, splintering the air like a windowpane.
An orange across alternate historiesOne orange with segments of glass, char and lime. A fruit can’t be every way it might have turned out.
Taut rope, wrinkled airHung from a rope like washing, a patch of air creases, drapes and casts a shadow it has no surface for.